The Crisis of Acute Malnutrition among Children in Southern Sudan

It is estimated that almost one billion people regularly suffer from hunger worldwide; most of whom are women and children and that one child dies every six seconds from hunger related causes in the the whole world. Under-nutrition prevents children from reaching their full developmental and cognitive potential. It usually occurs because of prolonged discrepancy between food consumption and the nutritional needs.This book assesses the food security and nutrition situation of rural populations in the Republic of Southern Sudan so as to generate information that will assist in the targeting of food assistance and nutrition intervention, in clinical settings geographically and at household level

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The authors are Assistant Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Human Nutrition and Diatetics and Education Planning and Management at Masinde Muliro University of Scienece and Technology respectively. G. Nguka is HOD while Dr. Odebero heads Bishop Sulumeti Study Centre within the same university and both sit in University Senate.