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Secretary of the Food and Nutrition Security Secretariat Juan Carlos Carías participated in the meeting for the Joint Evaluation of the actions of the multi-stakeholder Platform of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement -SUN- 2019. The secretary of SESAN said: <>‘We want to thank the secretariat…

Every month over 25,000 children with severe acute malnutrition are admitted to hospitals across Ethiopia. If not identified early and treated properly, these children could die. Survivors are more likely to perform poorly in school and, once grown up, girls are more likely to suffer…

Representatives, members of the Costa Rican Parliamentary Front against Hunger and Malnutrition (FPHM), have presented the 2018-2022 strategic plan which aims to lead and impact dialogue, debate and political advocacy to reduce all forms of malnutrition. “To achieve zero hunger, measures must be taken to…

Food systems are at a crossroads. Profound transformation is needed to address Agenda 2030 and to achieve food security and nutrition (FSN) in its four dimensions of availability, access, utilization and stability, and to face multidimensional and complex challenges, including a growing world population, urbanization…

Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Pooled Fund for Multi-Sector/Stakeholder Platforms – Window II The Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Pooled Fund is a source of funding of catalytic and innovative projects to support Multi-Sector/Stakeholder Platforms in SUN Countries to increase the effectiveness and impact of national efforts…

As the African continent races against time to attain food and nutrition security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union have called on legislators on the continent to work to achieve sustainable transformation of the agricultural sector and…

A systematic, evidence-based approach was used to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using point-of-use fortification with micronutrient powders to improve complementary foods and feeding practices. Evidence continued to inform the design of the pilot phase in 2012/13 and the subsequent scale-up. By 2017, Rwanda…

Each year, member countries of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement are asked to undertake a participatory exercise aiming to chart the road ahead and celebrate progress made to ensure improved nutrition for all women, men and their families. In 2019, this Joint-Assessment exercise –…

* Article written by SUN Business Network Lao PDR Coordinator, Manilay Vanphavong and originally published by the SUN Business Network The SUN Business Network Laos organised a meeting to bring together the private sector and the network’s facilitator to discuss how to improve nutrition and eradicate…

The Women Deliver Conference is the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women. Through plenary panels, concurrent sessions, and side events, the Women Deliver 2019 Conference (#WD2019) – held 3-6 June in Vancouver, Canada – was…

Interview with Lucy Murage – Regional Advisor for Adolescents’ and Women’s health & Nutrition for Nutrition International What is the added value of the SUN Movement in your work? For example, Kenya has adopted a multi-stakeholder approach to nutrition. This has been made possible by…

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…