The latest Zimbabwe Food and National Nutrition Survey, carried out by UNICEF et al., noted that nearly 12,000 child deaths each year in the Zimbabwe may be attributable to maternal and child under-nutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is now 33.8% and only one in 10 children is receiving a diet that is minimally acceptable.

 Tinashe, a Zimbabwean single mother of three interviewed by IRIN news, regularly misses a meal so as to stretch her US$90 a month income and provide food for her children. "My children are at the stage when they should be growing tall, but that is not the case - they are underweight," said Tinashe. She told IRIN that “her wages pay the rent and the school fees, but there is never enough money to put regular meals on the table.”

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