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The health and nutrition of adolescents are becoming global priorities. There are over 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10-19 in the world and nearly a quarter of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa are aged 10 to 19. Different stages of the life cycle dictate differing nutrient…

The UN Nutrition Network is supporting actors to find their place on the nutrition map. The recent publication from the UN Network highlights how rallying for nutrition through the 2030 agenda confers a unique opportunity to leverage nutrition as an enabler to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals….

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) update released by the Government of South Sudan in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), an estimated 6.96 million South…

More than 1000 people from across the globe working in the areas of food, agriculture and nutrition gathered in Stockholm, Sweden in mid-June to respond to the urgent call for action on food systems transformation. Participants came together to attend the 2019 EAT Stockholm Food…

An urgent call to action to improve nutrition in the South Asia Region The third South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) Roundtable event was held last week in Bangkok, Thailand highlighting the role of high impact and under-represented nutrition sensitive food systems in…

This blog was originally published by IFPRI here as one in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-term sustainability and growth while ending hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. Nutrition is the smart and necessary investment if we are to transform our food systems for the well-being…

In 2019, I do not think we need to talk about ‘why’ when it comes to scaling-up nutrition. We are far beyond that. According to the report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018, for the third year in a row…

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved today a total financing of USD 502 million for the Multisectoral Nutrition and Health project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This funding comprises a USD 246 million credit and a USD 246 grant from the…

Three years ago, in the Iguaín Ayacucho region of Peru, 65 per cent of children aged less than 3 had anaemia, putting them at risk of severe long-term effects on health, and impaired cognitive development and school performance. Today that rate has been cut to…

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched the United Nations’ Decade of Family Farming and a Global Action Plan to boost support for family farmers, particularly those in developing countries. The two UN agencies lead the implementation of the…

The World Food Programme (WFP) handed over its school feeding programme in more than 500 schools to the Government of Laos. The ceremony was held at the Bor village school in Oudomxay, where WFP provides 40,000 plates of food per year to the school’s 200…

A blog by Carrie Memminger (PATH) originally published by MQSUN+ Nutritional status can be strongly impacted by gender. Socially-constructed gender roles, in conjunction with biological differences in sex and age, influence nutritional needs and status of individuals, households, communities and societies. As well, inequalities in decision making…

On 16 May 2019, the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and SUN Movement Coordinator, Gerda Verburg, received the official letter signed by the Vice-Coordinator General of the Honduran Government Social Cabinet, Zoila Patricia Cruz Cerrato. The letter expressed the country’s interest in forming…

This publication by UNICEF explores the experience from countries that have implemented “soda taxes” to prevent childhood overweight.With increased rates of childhood overweight, countries are looking for ways to promote good nutrition and reduce the longer-term risk of diet-related noncommunicable diseases. WHO recommendation to limit…

The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement was proud to wave the nutrition flag at the 72nd World Health Assembly which took place 20 – 28 May in Geneva, Switzerland. Building on the success of 2018, the SUN Movement hosted the second Nutrition Hub, bringing together…

Mali’s next food security investment plan would be more sensitive to agriculture and nutrition, and requires involvement of all key actors including ICRISAT in its formulation, said Dr Djibril Bagayoko, Head, Nutrition Coordination, Ministry of Health and Hygiene of Mali. Leading a delegation, Dr Bagayoko…

Blog written by Carmen Torres Ledezma* and published by HiVOS © Photos and videos: Karlo M. Bermúdez / @karloemb International discourse has moved away from “we should feed the world” to “we should nourish the world” and “we should nourish the world in a way…

* Originally published by the UN Network for SUN UN actors are coming together and waving the nutrition flag high in Peru. Joint nutrition advocacy and studies, including the systemization of experiences and lessons learned in anaemia reduction, are some of the fruits that this…

Following the GFF replenishment event in November 2018 that raised more than USD 1 billion for the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF), the GFF announced that 9 countries, all of them part of the SUN Movement (Chad, Ghana, Mauritania, Niger, Pakistan, Somalia, Tajikistan,…

A recent sub-regional symposia – Symposium on sustainable food systems and nutrition governance for healthy diets in Central Asia and Caucasus – was held from 24-26 April 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan. During the event, several countries acknowledged the need to shift to more sustainable production…