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06 August 2021 — The Parliament of Sierra Leone has approved a bill to regulate the marketing of breastmilk substitutes (also called infant formula) to improve the nutrition of infants and young children. Sierra Leone joins 136 other countries with similar laws to protect and…

The Scaling Up Movement( SUN) 3.0, the third phase of the United Nations-established movement, calls for accelerated results to eliminate all forms of malnutrition by 2030. In the launch of the SUN 3.0 strategy in the Philippines, stakeholders from the SUN Networks including government, civil…

The programme, ‘Accelerating Progress towards Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment’, implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls (UN Women) and the…

In December 2020, the SUN Movement Lead Group endorsed the SUN Movement Strategy for 2021-2025. Shortly after this, the SUN Operationalisation (OPS) Group was informally initiated by the Executive Committee (Jo Moir, Allison Oman, Tumaini Mikindo and Asma Lateef) to work with colleagues across the Movement,…

Haiti: funding gap threatens the lives of nearly 86,000 children. The number of children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Haiti could increase by more than double this year, warned UNICEF Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jean Gough, who concluded…

This Side Event is an opportunity for young people and CFS stakeholders to interactively exchange on an equal basis on some of the biggest challenges related to food systems and…

* A blog by Lawrence Haddad and Carin Smaller originally published by IFPRI The number of people who go to bed hungry was rising steadily prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to stresses related to climate, inequality and conflict, and now stands at 690 million….