24 May 2012, Mao, Chad - Mothers with their malnourished infants in a therapeutic feeding centre for malnourished children. A combination of drought, chronic poverty, high food prices, displacement and conflict has led to dramatic declines in food production across the Sahel, where over 17 million people are at risk of hunger and more than 1 million children under five face acute malnutrition.
FAO Project: OSRO/CHD/103/EC - Supporting food and nutritional security for the reduction of malnutrition (ECHO/-WF/BUD/2011/91004). Objectives: Contribute towards the reduction of malnutrition for the most vulnerable households.