In June 2017, the Elsevier Journal Global Food Security published for the first time, a special edition dedicated to the experiential learnings of Stories of Change in Nutrition. This edition builds on the book "Nourishing Millions: Stories of Change", launched in 2016 as part of the Stories of...
Read More
In Madagascar, the World Bank’s team recognized that the country’s stunting crisis could benefit from the Multiphase Programmatic Approach (MPA). systematic, but flexible and adaptive process. “Stand-alone operations work fine in many contexts, but if you are grappling with an issue as complex as stunting, the...
Read More
Lao PDR will test a new cross-cutting and evidence-based approach to reducing stunting in four northern provinces, with support from the World Bank. Representatives from the Ministries of Planning and Investment, Agriculture, Public Works and Transport, and Health, together with the World Bank, met today...
Read More
* Interview originally published by the UN Network for SUN Mali continues to face high levels of malnutrition driven by multiple factors that are exacerbated by the effects of climate change and conflict. Child wasting is estimated at a whopping 10.7 per cent (SMART 2017) although national...
Read More
* Story originally published by the UN Network for the SUN Movement Lesotho is making great improvements in child nutrition outcomes. Between 2004 - 2014, stunting among children under 5 years old has steadily decreased. Despite this, stunting remains high at 33.2 per cent, micronutrient deficiencies...
Read More
The Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda Secretariat conducted a two- day workshop to secure stakeholders’ consensus on AFSeN-A Contextual Analysis and Stakeholders’ Mapping through consultation and validation process and to agree on a common results framework for the AFSeN-A Strategic Plan. The draft Context...
Read More
The secretary of the Food and Nutrition Security Secretariat (SESAN), Juan Carlos Carías, and technical under-secretary Maira Ruano met with Mar Maestre, a Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement consultant, who is visiting Guatemala to carry out a study on the design of an Effective Multi-sectoral...
Read More
Visiting Chad from 1 to 3 July 2018, UN Deputy Secretary-General and SUN Movement Coordinator Gerda Verburg, accompanied by SUN Movement Executive Committee president Shawn Baker, met with all stakeholders in the SUN Movement. Their fruitful discussions with the Representative of the Head of State,...
Read More
The Special Ambassador for Nutrition for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho, has said collaboration among various stakeholders on nutrition is critical to ending malnutrition in a country. King Letsie III said this at the...
Read More
In May 2018, UNICEF, WHO and World Bank Group released the 2018 edition of the joint child malnutrition estimates for the 1990–2017 period, representing the most recent global and regional figures. A suite of on-line interactive dashboards were developed to enable users to explore the...
Read More
The policy brief, by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), suggests ways in which governments can persuade food industry partners to provide consumers with better access to healthier diets....
Read More