Lungu asked to prioritize enactment of NFNC Act

Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition Alliance (CSO-SUN) has appealed to President Edgar Lungu to prioritize the enactment of the revised National Food and Nutrition Commission (NFNC) Act of 1967 as he starts his new five year mandate.

CSO-SUN program officer for advocacy and communication, Mwandwe Chileshe says there is urgent need to repeal NFNC Act of 1967 as it does not support the attainment of optimal nutrition status for all Zambians in its current form.

She says there is therefore need for the bill to be presented to parliament as soon as the house reconvenes.

Ms. Chileshe adds that President Lungu should prioritize improving nutrition as one of his immediate tasks considering the fact that the country had continued to experience a double burden of malnutrition, where 40% of children under the age of five were stunted, a situation which affects their full potential to attain intellectual as well as physical growth.