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A person living in Bangladesh has to spend Tk 276 for buying healthy food daily and 73% of the population does not have the ability to do so.
It was disclosed in “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022” published jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Unicef, World Food Program and World Health Organisation, reports UNB.
In 2017 about 77.4% population of Bangladesh could not afford a healthy diet which has been reduced to 73% in 2022.
According to the report, Nepal has the least capacity to buy healthy food among the countries of South Asia. Then comes Pakistan.
Moreover, almost 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020, the report said, adding that it was 112 million more than in 2019.
The number reflects the inflation in consumer food prices stemming from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to contain it.
Despite hopes that the world would emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 and food security would begin to improve, world hunger rose further in 2021, the survey found.
India is doing slightly better than Bangladesh while Sri Lanka and Bhutan have the highest capacity of buying healthy food compared to other countries of this region.
On average, 41.1% people of South Asia are unable to afford healthy food.
The challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition keep growing, reads the report.
The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the fragilities in our agrifood systems and the inequalities in our societies, driving further increases in world hunger and severe food insecurity.
The report says that, despite global progress, trends in child undernutrition – including stunting and wasting, deficiencies in essential micronutrients and overweight and obesity in children, continue to be of great concern.
Globally in 2020, an estimated 22% of children under five years of age were stunted, 6.7% were wasted, and 5.7 percent were overweight.
A person living in Bangladesh has to spend Tk 276 for buying healthy food daily and 73% of the population does not have the ability to do so.
It was disclosed in “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022” published jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Unicef, World Food Program and World Health Organisation, reports UNB.
In 2017 about 77.4% population of Bangladesh could not afford a healthy diet which has been reduced to 73% in 2022.
According to the report, Nepal has the least capacity to buy healthy food among the countries of South Asia. Then comes Pakistan.
Moreover, almost 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020, the report said, adding that it was 112 million more than in 2019.
The number reflects the inflation in consumer food prices stemming from the economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to contain it.
Despite hopes that the world would emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021 and food security would begin to improve, world hunger rose further in 2021, the survey found.
India is doing slightly better than Bangladesh while Sri Lanka and Bhutan have the highest capacity of buying healthy food compared to other countries of this region.
On average, 41.1% people of South Asia are unable to afford healthy food.
The challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition keep growing, reads the report.
The Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted the fragilities in our agrifood systems and the inequalities in our societies, driving further increases in world hunger and severe food insecurity.
The report says that, despite global progress, trends in child undernutrition – including stunting and wasting, deficiencies in essential micronutrients and overweight and obesity in children, continue to be of great concern.
Globally in 2020, an estimated 22% of children under five years of age were stunted, 6.7% were wasted, and 5.7 percent were overweight.
