Parents struggling to feed children as food prices rise
UK, Feb. 15, 2012
Half a billion children are at risk of being physically and mentally stunted in the next 15 years due to hikes in food prices.
A survey conducted by Save the Children, an aid agency, indicated that millions of parents in the developing world have been forced to cut back on food for their children due to hikes in food prices.
The agency surveyed families in India, Bangladesh, Peru, Pakistan and Nigeria.
According to the survey, one parent in six said their children were abandoning school to help out by working for food.
The agency said the price hikes had worsened child malnutrition and could hit progress reducing child deaths.
The agency wants the UK to lead the way in reducing hunger and protecting children from food price rises.
The UK's International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, said the charity was right to focus on hunger and malnutrition, and Britain would "continue to urge other countries to match our own efforts in this area".
Food prices rose sharply in the first half of last year, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), after severe weather in some of the world's biggest food exporting countries in 2010 damaged supplies.
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