The United Nations reports that nearly 2 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region cannot afford healthy meals

The outbreak of new crown pneumonia and rising inequalities are put nearly 2 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region at serious risk of healthy eating, according to several U.N. agencies.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization jointly released a report entitled "Overview of food security and nutrition in the Asia-Pacific region 2020: focusing on mother-to-child diets and promoting improved nutrition".
the impact of the outbreak on the economy could jeopardize efforts to improve diet and nutrition in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the report.
outbreak, 1.9 billion people in the Asia-Pacific region were unable to afford healthy meals.
reported that affordability of healthy meals is essential to ensuring food security and nutrition for all, especially for mothers, children and children.
poor in the Asia-Pacific region are barely able to secure healthy diets because of rising fruit, vegetable and dairy prices.
report notes that outbreaks, lack of decent work opportunities and severe uncertainty about food systems and markets have led to increased inequality in the Asia-Pacific region, with poor households having to change their dietary choices in favour of low-cost, nutrient-poor food as a result of reduced incomes.
, more than 350 million people in the Asia-Pacific region were undernested in 2019, almost half of the world's population.
the region, an estimated 74.5 million children under the age of 5 are stunted and 31.5 million are physically thin.
the worst situation in South Asia, where nearly 56 million children are stunted and more than 25 million are wasting.
same time, the number of overweight and obese people is increasing rapidly, particularly in South-East Asia and the Pacific, where an estimated 14.5 million children under the age of 5 are overweight or obese.
called for the transformation of food systems in the Asia-Pacific region, increased supply and increased household access to nutrition, safe and sustainable diets.
nutrition and healthy diets need to be universal to the general population.
to achieve this goal, the report recommends an integrated approach and policies that play a key role in addressing costs and ensuring healthy meals for mothers, children and children.
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