USAID launches drive to reduce childhood hunger

USAID announced a first-of-its-kind strategy to save 2 million children from chronic malnutrition or stunting over the next five years and to hold acute malnutrition below 15 percent in areas with humanitarian crises. USAID chief Rajiv Shah and National Security Advisory Susan Rice unveiled the initiative at an annual food conference sponsored by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

“With this new approach, USAID is harnessing the power of science and technology to ensure every child and mother has the nutrition they need to thrive,” Shah said in a statement. The Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy will integrate nutrition priorities into USAID’s health, agriculture and humanitarian programs. Aiming for high impact, activities will include “enhancing maternal nutrition, promoting dietary diversity in children, providing safe drinking water, teaching good hygiene like hand washing…and increasing access to high-nutrient food.”

To read USAID’s Multi-Sectoral Nutriton Strategy, click here.

For a USAID fact sheet on antihunger work, click here.

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