As described above, Somalia faces multiple challenges - not least conflict, drought, flooding, inadequate and inequitable social and public services and massive population displacement - but persistently high levels of malnutrition are undermining the survival, growth and development of the population. Rates of acute and chronic malnutrition have consistently exceeded emergency thresholds in some areas for more than 10 years now. Due to the scale of the humanitarian situation in Somalia and the alarmingly high rates of acute malnutrition, the vast majority of the nutrition interventions are focussed on the management of acute malnutrition. This remains a key priority to.
