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With only seven years left to meet the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, recognition and application of pragmatic solutions to the challenges posed by climate change, water, and food nexus take precedence now more than ever.
Despite being the most fundamental of human needs, water and food remain scarce resources. Relatedly, today’s water, food, and climate crises are interrelated and interchangeable, presenting a nexus with a high impact on socioeconomic development. Thus, SDG2 on zero hunger, SDG 6 on clean water and sanitation for all, and SDG 13 on climate action present key actions to ensure sustainable access to safe and adequate food and water, given their critical relevance to human health and life.
We commend the government of Uganda for all the initiatives established at all levels through the various government programs, plans, strategies, and frameworks to ensure access to safe and adequate water and food for all. We also commend the government for its efforts in promoting sustainable environmental management and curbing climate change as well as its impacts on the livelihood of Ugandans.
Further, we commend the Ugandan government for its commitments undertaken at regional and international levels including the SDGs, Malabo commitments, Land Degradation Neutrality, and United Nations Framework Convention on climate change commitments to improve safe water access, promote sustainable environmental resource management and combat climate change for food and nutrition security.
However, despite the efforts made, Ugandans continue to suffer from high rates of food insecurity and hunger. In 2022, over 41% of the population in Karamoja faced high food insecurity levels with 428,000 people in crisis. UBOS 2020 also reports food to take the highest share of household expenditure at 43%.
Further, Uganda also continues to shoulder high and multiple burdens of malnutrition. Today, 23% of all children below 5 years in the country shall never leave to their full potential because of stunting. In addition, over 300,000 children (3%) are wasted; almost one million children (8%) are underweight; and 300,000 children are obese (3%). Further, nutritional adequacy remains a challenge for children aged 6-23 months in Uganda as only 30.3% consume diverse diets and only 15% consume the minimum acceptable diet (UNAP 2020-2025). More so, over 53% of all women of reproductive age are anaemic as well as 32% of all children under 5 years. This malnutrition situation negatively affects the quality of human capital, and education outcomes, and increases the cost of health including maternal, infant, and child deaths.
