Chad: Adapting emergency food aid to combat malnutrition

Studies in Kanem by the World Food Programme (WFP) and NGO Action Against Hunger (ACF) in 2008 showed acute overall malnutrition levels of 20% and an under-five mortality rate of three per 10,000 per day - surpassing emergency thresholds.

"With worsening nutritional indicators and increased acute malnutrition there is a need for an urgent [response],” said Marzio Babille, representative of the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, in Chad. “But food aid is not enough as the causes for the current [nutrition] emergency are long-term and structural,” he said.

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