**Table 3.**

*Food production in Africa.*

#### **Figure 1.**

*Low birth weight prevalence, by country and region, 2015. Source: UNICEF-WHO low birth weight estimates, 2019.*

well during pregnancy to ensure their good health and that of their infants. In other words, statistics on malnutrition reflect regardless of whether a country is safe from food insecurity, reiterating that the birth weight of a newborn is an important indicator of maternal and foetal health and nutrition (**Figure 1**).
