Nutrition
Hunger and malnutrition need to be addressed in tandem
Much of the global effort to end hunger has focused on the quantity of calories rather than their quality. Because nutrition has not been integrated into efforts to end hunger, policy-makers and donors worldwide must now address a major new crisis - the multiple forms of malnutrition. The results are detrimental to health, the environment and poverty rates.
Addressing both hunger and malnutrition requires a multi-dimensional approach that strengthens agriculture and food production, market systems, and healthy consumption habits. It is now firmly recognized that sectors beyond health, such as agriculture, education, social protection, and economic development, are essential in shaping positive health and nutrition outcomes.
High impact interventions to end hunger nutritiously
An upcoming Hesat2030 report will provide a plan to end hunger and malnutrition through 10 high-impact nutrition-sensitive interventions in the agriculture and food system that focus on promoting healthy diets.
​The report is based on a synthesis of nearly 2000 individual studies across 83 countries and 52 high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses that is integrated into an economic model (MIRAGRODEP), designed to leverage synergies and balance trade-offs, to determine the costs.
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Enacting policies that promote healthy, nutritious diets can deliver cost-effective, high-impact advances in ending hunger and malnutrition, as well as desirable secondary outcomes related to increased incomes, women's empowerment, and climate resilience.
This project is undertaken by researchers from the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, the JUNO Evidence Alliance and the FAO.
Report objectives
​OBJECTIVE #1
Provide a comprehensive analysis and costing of the most effective nutrition sensitive interventions in agrifood systems that improve diets and nutrition.
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OBJECTIVE #2
Advance the understanding of the linkages between multiple nutrition sensitive interventions in order to maximise impact.
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OBJECTIVE #3
Formulate evidence-based recommendations on climate-smart actions that achieve healthy diets and improve nutrition sustainably, without breaching the 1.5 °C threshold.
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OBJECTIVE #4
Facilitate consensus among practitioners of nutrition and foods systems policies on a shortlist of essential actions to take.
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