The actions and activities of businesses have a profound effect on nutrition outcomes.
Search
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.
Introduction [in Global Nutrition Report 2015]
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.
Climate change and nutrition
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
Nutrition is a powerful driver of sustainable development—it has the power to either propel the agenda forward or hold it back.
How can family farmers best contribute to their country’s agriculture needs as well as broader development goals? First, we should determine which farmers can be profitable and assist them in doing so.
2014 saw important developments with potentially wide repercussions in individual countries and regions
Appetite for fish continues to expand around the globe, despite the stagnant levels of capture fish production. What is the role that aquaculture can play in supplying the world with adequate animal protein?
Food safety: Reducing and managing food scares
A series of high-profile food-related scares around the globe has drawn attention to the issue of food safety and other health risks associated with agriculture.
Food and nutrition insecurity are increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries
Fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events.