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Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) reports about the double burden of nutrition following a review IDS and Monash University produced for the Government of Australia. Countries of South east Asia and the Pacific are facing some of the highest under…

The three day Food and Nutrition Summit, starting 18 February 2014, brought together over 350 delegates and was focused on the importance of the first 1000 days. The summit also released the report “cost of hunger” which reveals that undernutrition in Rwanda costs the country…

This article tells a story about a woman in Rwanda and how she has learned from a Global Communities-led program and become an inspirational leader. She proudly announces that through community efforts, malnutrition has been wiped out in her neighborhood. Read more here

The Government of Tanzania and the SUN Business Network, launched a multi-stakeholder consultation process (January, 15th 2014) to integrate business into Tanzania’s National Nutrition Strategy (NNS). 100 representatives of business, media, NGO, UN agencies, and development partners attended, including over 60 companies, all national business,…

Over 60 leaders from civil society, governments, UN agencies and business gathered for the launch of the SUN Business Network at the World Economic Forum 2014 in January 2014 to recommend ways to engage more businesses in the SUN Business Network. The session was led…

Read the February 2014 Update for news from SUN Countries and around the Movement.

Two separate briefing series are being produced to describe how different parts of the SUN Movement are working and the experience of SUN countries. Scaling Up Nutrition in Practice This series presents the real-life experience of SUN countries. The first edition focuses on multi-stakeholder engagement…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), in cooperation with IFAD, IFPRI, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, WTO, WFP and the High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF), are jointly organizing the Second…

Ensuring optimal nutrition for a child is not always easy. Priority actions for nutrition need to be delivered by multiple sectors, agencies and actors. Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) is critical for scaling up nutrition specific interventions for women and children. Since the…

Working Multisectorally to Improve Nutrition and Global Lessons: Current Status in India This policy note has been developed with leadership from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN) and describes working…

On Tuesday 17 December 2013, the Minister for Planning, Development and Reform, Professor Ahsan Iqbal, launched the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement to help eradicate malnutrition in Pakistan. The launch marked the government’s commitment to invest in nutrition to improve the situation of the most…

In his recent blog, Kanayo F. Nwanze explains why IFAD is increasing its commitment of resources to issues related to nutrition. The President of the UN specialized agency reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of agriculture and illustrates how adaptations like small adjustments to IFAD…

On 3 February 2014, Liberia became the 47th country to commit to scaling up nutrition with the SUN Movement. The government of Liberia, through the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), is deeply committed to scaling up nutrition investments, designing interventions…