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The need


Nutritious food is a critical building block for children’s growth and development. Half of all childhood deaths can be traced to malnutrition. And when parents are weakened by hunger, they cannot work, grow crops or provide for their families.


Severe food shortages result from factors that often compound each other:
  • Poor farming techniques
  • Low soil fertility
  • Poor access to quality seeds
  • Poor control of crop pests
  • Environmental degradation
  • Drought and other natural disasters
Unless communities can establish secure sources of food to meet their nutritional needs, they have little hope of offering their children a healthy future.
Nutritious food is a critical building block for children’s growth and development.

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A young boy in a refugee camp in Southern Africa eats his rice. The food crisis in Southern Africa grows worse by the day as grain prices continue to rise .
A young boy in a refugee camp in Southern Africa eats his rice. The food crisis in Southern Africa grows worse by the day as grain prices continue to rise.

In Honduras at a World Vision distribution center, a pregnant mother receives essential food supplies to prevent malnutrition.
In Honduras at a World Vision distribution center, a pregnant mother receives essential food supplies to prevent malnutrition.

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