Affordable healthy diets can trigger positive development in nutrition, sustainability
12 May 2021, Budapest, Hungary - Although severe hunger has not been a major issue in Europe and Central Asia in the past 20 years, the region is in part facing an increase of moderate food insecurity - understood as irregular access to nutritious and sufficient food -, while also dealing with the widespread rapid growth of obesity, challenging its ability to achieve food security and improved nutrition, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.
Lowering the costs of healthy diets can be crucial to achieving better nutrition and sustainability.
The annual report, produced jointly by FAO, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), provides a comprehensive analysis of the topic, including all forms of malnutrition, current
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New FAO-led food security and nutrition report for Europe and Central Asia elaborates on costs of a healthy diet
12 May 2021, Budapest, Hungary – Although severe hunger has not been a major issue in Europe and Central Asia in the past 20 years, the region is in part facing an increase of moderate food insecurity – understood as irregular access to nutritious and sufficient food -, while also dealing with the widespread rapid growth of obesity, challenging its ability to achieve food security and improved nutrition, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.
Lowering the costs of healthy diets can be crucial to achieving better nutrition and sustainability.
Europe and Central Asia: Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020 - Affordable Healthy Diets to Promote Health and Address all Forms of Malnutrition
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New FAO-led food security and nutrition report for Europe and Central Asia elaborates on the costs of a healthy diet
12 May 2021, Budapest, Hungary - Although severe hunger has not been a major issue in Europe and Central Asia in the past 20 years, the region is in part facing an increase of moderate food insecurity - understood as irregular access to nutritious and sufficient food -, while also dealing with the widespread rapid growth of obesity, challenging its ability to achieve food security and improved nutrition, as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.