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South Asia is home to more food insecure people than any other region in the world. About 294 million people are classified by the Food and Agriculture Organisation as undernourished-more than one third of the world’s population. This was said at a ceremony organised to release a World Food Programme (WFP) publication “Enabling Development: Food Assistance in South Asia” by WFP’s Sri Lanka Branch. “Although hunger simply means an absence of food, food security goes further, embracing multiple dimensions of availability, access and utilisation on one hand and vulnerability on the other. These four dimensions of food security affects children, women and conflict affected people,” WFP’s Sri Lanka Representative, Dr. Suresh Sharma said, introducing the publication. WFP’s cooperation in Sri Lanka started in 1968. According to WFP sources during past 32 years, WFP has provided food assistance to the poorest of the poor and the most disadvantaged sections of the society. The WFP publication says, “The most acutely vulnerable are pregnant and nursing mothers, unborn babies as well as children under five. In South Asia around 99 million children below the age of five are under-weight.”
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