Effects of climate change on family nutrition in Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim News Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced Afghanistan is the seventh most vulnerable country to climate change, while this country has one of the lowest levels of pollution in the world.

According to UNICEF estimates, there are currently more than 875,000 children under the age of five. In Afghanistan, they suffer from severe malnutrition.

This organization stated that the torrential rains in April of this year caused the residents of the flooded areas to lose everything.

Fund United Nations Children’s Support added: lack of food and clean drinking water are among the things that cause children to get sick, while most of them do not have access to medical centers. UNICEF also said that 80% of the population of Afghanistan Agriculture is dependent, so natural disasters have a direct impact on the nutrition of families, especially in rural areas.

According to this report, the sudden and devastating floods after the earthquake and the droughts of the last few years in Afghanistan, by destroying the food sources, threaten the food security in this country with a greater threat. It is said that more than 7,500 houses have been destroyed and 5,000 families have been displaced due to floods in the western and northern provinces of Afghanistan in the past few weeks.

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