The UNFSS+4 will provide an opportunity to document progress, strengthen accountability, and unlock investments for transformative action.
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The dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and reductions in aid budgets by other Western donor countries, including the United Kingdom (40%), France (37%), the Netherlands (30%) and Belgium (25%), over the next 3–5 years threaten to reverse decades of progress in reducing malnutrition.
Gender equality should be central to all N4G commitments. All countries and development partners should make specific commitments to improve nutrition and gender equality in line with six cross-cutting principles
The Nutrition for Growth, or N4G, summit in Paris, France, has garnered $27.55 billion in commitments from donors to end malnutrition globally — breaking the record set at the previous N4G summit in Tokyo in 2021.
As the Nutrition for Growth Summit draws to a close in Paris today, Team Europe is reinforcing its leadership and commitment to fighting the global malnutrition crisis. Taken together, the Team Europe commitments amount to at least €6.5 billion between 2024 and 2029.
The Global Compact for Nutrition Integration is a collective effort to mobilize, sustain, and implement nutrition integration commitments from a broad range of stakeholders. The SUN movement countries have long championed multi-sectoral approaches to nutrition.
Too often, agricultural investments focus narrowly on high yield but nutrient poor staples. But we need to go beyond calories largely from staples—to nutrition.
Leaders from the CGIAR Science Program on Better Diets and Nutrition (BDN) will actively participate in CGIAR Science Week, engaging in various sessions to contribute to the overall goal of advancing science and innovation for food, land, and water systems transformation.
This Knowledge Note presents two sets of analytical work to further our understanding of the links between public support in the agrifood sector and healthy diets. While the analytical work here is mostly suggestive, it paves the way for more in-depth research to unpack the relationship of agrifood support with healthy diets.
It was the first major global pledging conference since the Trump administration announced in January that it would cut the majority of U.S. humanitarian and development aid.
The global architecture to address undernutrition — a leading cause of under-five mortality—is evolving against a backdrop of global economic challenges and constrained resources. This puts funding for nutrition-specific interventions at risk, at a time when budgets are not keeping pace with growing needs.
Good nutrition is both a marker of human rights and a driver of transformative change. It signifies healthier lives, stronger economies, constitutes the foundation for resilience and touches upon every Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
On 24 March 2025, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to extend United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (the Nutrition Decade), originally from 2016–2025, to 2030. This extension aims to maintain the political momentum to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 at global, regional and national levels and to align its objectives with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The worsening triple whammy of malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity means an in-depth rethink of our food systems is urgently needed.
Malnutrition does irreparable damage to a child’s physical and cognitive development, weakening immune systems, stunting growth and limiting brain development.
Current food systems face major environmental, climate and health challenges, while responding to food security and nutrition ones. A literature review examining evidence (1998-2019) found that the use of agroecological practices was associated with improved food security and nutrition outcomes in households in low and middle-income countries (LMIC).
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Despite steady progress with data coverage in recent years, severe funding shortages in 2025 threaten to reverse these gains. The year ahead promises to be profoundly challenging for data availability but more importantly for the humanitarian system and the 300 million people in need of assistance in locations around the world.
The Trump administration's dismantling of USAID threatens the international system for forecasting and tracking extreme hunger. That could lead to deadlier famines.
