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On 17 October 2017, Nutrition International launched the ‘Right Start Initiative’ in the Philippines to improve nutrition for pregnant women, newborns, infants and young children in the Philippines. Supported by the Government of Canada, Right Start aims to reduce anaemia in pregnant women and young children, and low…

On 9 October 2017, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and the Global Alliance for the future of Food presented, in the margins of the CFS44, a new report: Unravelling the Food-Health Nexus: Addressing Practices, Political Economy, and Power Relations to Build Healthier Food Systems.

From 12 to 25 Septemeber 2017, the 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 72) convene at UN Headquarters in New York. Nutrition played an important role during the Assembly where the SUN Movement, along with its partners, called on attendees to take urgent…

In the first week of September 2017, a mission of experts visited Peru from Kenya to learn about best practice in food security, and coordinated productive development programmes that the Government of Peru is running in the country.

The Zimbabwe Civil Society Organisations Scaling Up Nutrition Alliance (ZCSOSUNA), an alliance of civil society organisations working together to address malnutrition, has formed an innovative new partnership with the Zimbabwe Youth council to ensure national plans to address malnutrition respond to the experiences of children…

From 5 to 7 September, San Salvador (El Salvador) hosted the “Regional Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Eating“, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. The forum involved experts, academics, representatives of governments from the area and…

On Monday 18 September 2017, took place the meeting of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group, in the margins of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The meeting was held on the backdrop of significant challenges. After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger appears to be on the rise, affecting 11 percent of the global population.

From 4 to 8 September 2017, the seventh African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) titled, “Accelerating Africa’s Path to Prosperity: Growing Inclusive Economies and Jobs through Agriculture” was held at the Sofitel in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The forum was hosted by H.E. President Alassane Ouattara, a continental champion of inclusive agricultural transformation, and his team of senior government officials.

From 19 to 21 September 2017, the Word Food Programme hosted a webinar with SecureNutrition as part of the UN Network for SUN webinar series, to introduce the Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) tool to stakeholders and colleagues, who are engaged in designing multi-sectoral strategies for nutrition at the country level.

On 7 September 2017, the National Planning Commission (NPC) of Nepal hosted a two-day Roundtable focused on advancing multi-stakeholder and multisectoral national and subnational efforts for scaling up government nutrition programs.

In the margins of the 44th session of the Committee on Food Security (CFS44) the report of the CFS High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Nutrition and Food Systems was launched.

The King of the Kingdom of Lesotho, His Majesty King Letsie lll has called on African leaders to invest in nutrition in order to address the chronic hunger and malnutrition challenges across the Continent. King Letsie who the current African Union Nutrition Champion made the remarks during a courtesy call on the AU Chairperson H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat.

On September 2017, Action Against Hunger presented the report “Emerging Financing Mechanisms: where is the value for nutrition? A Specific Focus on the Global Financing Facility (GFF)”. The report is the fourth report in Action Against Hunger’s Aid for Nutrition series. This fourth report of…

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing all nations today leading to not only environmental but also economic and social consequences. It has increased the risk of weather-related natural disasters jeopardizing livelihoods, food security, clean water and sanitary conditions, which are essential for…

The SUN Civil Society Network (SUNCSN) has as we speak 2.500 member organisations organised as National Civil Society Alliances (CSA) spread across 39 countries globally. In mid-July, I attended the SUN Civil Society Regional Learning Exchange – Asia co-organised by Global SUN CSN Secretariat and the Civil Society Alliance for Nutrition, Nepal (CSANN) in Kathmandu.

On September 17, “The State of Food and Security Nutrition in the World 2017” report, known as SOFI for its acronym in English, was presented in Rome. For the first time, the report has been coordinated by the three Rome-based agencies, FAO, IFAD and WFP,…

“The Stories Behind the Data” is the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation’s first annual report dedicated to accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs.