with funding from unicef the fao contracted the authors to write the review the authors are grateful for the constructive and thoughtful input provided by staff from both these organizations children are particularly vulnerable million children go to school hungry one in four are stunted and nearly half of deaths of children under five are attributable to poor nutrition as concerning as these numbers are by focusing narrowly on anthropometric consequences of malnutrition rather than on child food insecurity more holistically we probably underestimate the extent to which children are negatively impacted by foodrelated hardships child food insecurity is related to hunger and malnutrition but it also includes experiences of worry stigma and shame related to food challenges