Malnutrition is the prevalent challenges faced by the populace due to the adverse effects of climate change that pose grim threats to food security especially to small scale food producer’s lives and livelihoods.
Confer to the matter of concern, Food and Nutrition Experts suggested that government need to work out smart policies for long term solutions to embark upon the nutritional problems as 40 per cent of children below the age of five years were malnourished in the country because of lack of awareness, climatic changes and poor access to untainted foods among communities in the country.
Chairman Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, Bahauddin Zakariya University Dr Saeed Akhtar emphasized that country was lagging behind to meet the challenges of finest nutrition at community level, adding that micro-nutrients deficiencies among these population segments extensively prevailed.
Another expert Dr Tariq Ismail said climate change was amplifying multiple burdens of malnutrition by its effects on food security, public hygiene, water quality and supplies, food safety and maternal and child health care.
Proficient Experts stressed that the future of country was embedded in agriculture therefore, sustainable development goals (SDGz) wholly focus on ending hunger, achieving food security and better nutrition for population.
Likewise, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) highlighted nutrition as a core ingredient for nations to achieve prosperity and better livelihood.
To deal the frightening issues as initiatives required a long term policies that would help promoting health across the countries that ultimately would contribute for improvement in the economy.