Nutrition security at risk

The increased rate of poverty due to Covid-19 has left the country's nutrition security at risk and the physical growth of its one-third of children has been interrupted due to undernutrition, a FAO official has said.

Mohammad Mizanul Haque Kazol, national poverty and social protection policy advisor of the Food and Agriculture Organization, was delivering a technical session on Nutrition Sensitive Social Protection in the Context of Bangladesh on Monday, says a press release.

Quoting a research conducted by Brac on "Economic Impact of Covid-19 and way forward for Bangladesh", Mizanul said 95 percent households experienced income loss and 51 percent households' income reduced to almost zero due to Covid-19.

He added that 3 percent households did not have any food, 16 percent had only 1-3 days' food, and 22 percent households have 30 or more days' food.

Mizanul Haque also mentioned that the Bangladesh government adopted social security strategy in the year 2015.

He also highlighted few weakness of the strategy.

Md Elius Bhuiyan, director (training and studies) of PIB; Naoki Minamiguchi, chief technical advisor of MUCH project, FAO; and Feroz Al Mahmud, research director of the Ministry of Food, delivered speech at the webinar with Zafar Wazed, director general of PIB, in the chair.