This chapter tracks countries’ progress in improving the nutrition status of their populations.

Accountability is the glue that connects commitment to action, and so strengthening it is a priority.

To hold governments and other national stakeholders accountable for their actions to improve nutrition, it is critical to track their progress in implementing interventions, programs, and policies.

As we move into the era of the sustainable development goals (SDGS), the world faces many seemingly intractable problems. Malnutrition should not be one of them.

The issue of nutrition had an important moment in the spotlight in 2013.

The actions and activities of businesses have a profound effect on nutrition outcomes.

This chapter begins by asking how much governments currently spend on nutrition.

As described in the preceding chapter, food systems link agriculture, environmental sustainability, and nutrition.

Good nutrition signals the realization of people’s rights to food and health. It reflects a narrowing of the inequalities in our world. Without good nutrition, human beings cannot achieve their full potential.

Given the widespread effects that climate change is projected to have on the world’s most vulnerable people—and indeed the effects that are already underway—climate change features strongly in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): specifically