by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 200 million people are chronically hungry. Child and infant malnutrition rates are among the world’s highest. While smallholder farming accounts for approximately 80 per cent of the food produced in the region,...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge In sub-Saharan African countries such as Nigeria, irrigation and aquaculture play a crucial role in guaranteeing food security the basis for national economic growth and poverty reduction. Aquaculture development, however, has lost momentum in recent years...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge It is estimated that some 66 million primary-school-age children go hungry every day, with 23 million hungry children in Africa alone. Some 80 per cent of these 66 million children are concentrated within 20 countries. Additionally, 75 million school-age...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Guatemala suffers from high food insecurity and chronic undernutrition, and its local government and community leaders have limited awareness of food and nutrition security issues. As a result, these crucial issues are not reflected in local decision-making....
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Hospitals in developing countries face serious problems with health-service quality owing to a lack of adequate human resources, poor management of equipment and medicines, and operational inefficiency. Global development discourse, in the meantime, has...
by UNOSSC | Mar 17, 2019 | Solution
Challenge Millions of people in developing countries in Africa, the Arab States, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean have little access to qualified physicians. The reasons for this situation range from lack of physical access (patients having difficulty...
