Two million children in Philippines suffer from food poverty, says UNICEF


MANILA (Xinhua): An estimated 2 million children in the Philippines are suffering from severe food poverty, being unable to get enough healthy food, according to a new UNICEF report released to the media.

The global report Child Food Poverty: Nutrition Deprivation in Early Childhood said that around 181 million children worldwide under five years of age, or one in four, are experiencing severe child food poverty, making them up to 50 percent more likely to experience wasting, a life-threatening form of malnutrition.

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