BEST PRACTICE OF FOOD SECURITY AMONG AFRICAN CHILDREN, BASE ON FIES AND FOOD SYSTEM APPROACH:

Yves Germain IROUNG, Université de Douala
Claude Mbarga Ella, IFORD

According to the 2022 Global Food Insecurity Report, nearly 193 million people in 53 countries or territories experienced food insecurity in 2021. This represents an increase of nearly 40 million people on the already record numbers for 2020. Of these, more than half a million people were classified in the acute food insecurity phase (IPC/CH Phase 5). Africa is the continent most affected by malnutrition and food insecurity. Global health and environmental crises have laid bare the fragility of global agri-food systems. According to (FAO 2020), covid-19 has disrupted food supply chains and the war in Ukraine is severely affecting African economies. This study is a systematic review, it presents the existing literature in food security among children, identify and classify best practices, using several search engines that include JSTOR, PubMed, Ebscohost, Science Direct, Web of Science... to the recent (the last 20 years) studies about African countries.