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The Food Security Atlas of Nepal Provides National and sub -national food srcurity and nutrition status and helps understand sub - national/spatial pattern of food security and nutrition status in Nepal aiming to provide evidence for planning and management of the food security and nutrition related programme and policies at different level of the government. The Atlas provides an overview of food security in Nepal and identifies underlying challenges. It shows that while national level indicators are improving over the years, the rate of progress is still slow and there have been regional and social variations in food and nutrition security. The challenge is now to build evidence-based respnses, which take into account the underlying causes of and threats to food and nutrition security such as exposure to natural disaster and climate change. changing food consumption behaviour and food production systems, innovative approaches and technologies on health care, and institutional capacity building.