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Resources are exclusively related to malnutrition in all its forms, at global level and using multi sector approach. Members are encouraged to upload relevant content (e.g interesting case studies of countries, lessons learned, benchmarking practices, policies and programmes). It will consist of documents dated 2010 onwards.
The UNSCN resources centre is a database of nutrition-related documents and materials. Here, you can retrieve food security and nutrition related documents and/or links that have recently been issued (from 2010 onwards). To access any document issued prior to 2010, please visit the archive section.
Latest Resources
The Double Burden of Malnutrition: Lancet Series
15/12/2019 - The Lancet series on the Double Burden of Malnutrition is now available. The double burden of malnutrition is the coexistence of overnutrition (overweight and obesity) alongside undernutrition [...]
Global Atlas on Childhood Obesity
05/11/2019 - The first global atlas on childhood obesity by the World Obesity Federation (WOF) shows that no country has a better than fifty percent chance of meeting their target for tackling [...]
Nutrition for Growth commitment tracking
21/10/2019 - The Global Nutrition Report commitment tracking tool provides you with the latest data on commitments to end malnutrition made by country governments, civil society, business, the UN, donors and [...]
Global Hunger Index 2019: the challenge of hunger and climate change
21/10/2019 - The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that while the world has made gradual progress in reducing hunger on a global scale since 2000, this progress has been uneven. Hunger persists in many [...]
Sustainable healthy diets – Guiding principles
16/10/2019 - In 2014, the FAO/WHO Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) acknowledged that: “current food systems are being increasingly challenged to provide adequate, safe, diversified and [...]
ILRI commits to the Nutrition Decade
15/10/2019 - The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is a member of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. CGIAR science is dedicated to reducing poverty and enhancing food [...]
The State of the World’s Children 2019 - Children, food and nutrition: Growing well in a changing world
15/10/2019 - For the first time in 20 years, UNICEF’s flagship report examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge.This 2019 edition [...]
CARE commits to the Nutrition Decade
23/09/2019 - Good nutrition serves as a catalyst for advancement in health, education, employment, empowerment, and the productive capacity of women and men. It can lay the foundation for peaceful, secure, [...]
Nutrition News – Issue 3, 2019
30/08/2019 - In an effort to present nutrition related news at the global and country level, UNSCN and the UNN Secretariats are teaming up to produce the first comprehensive overview of recent developments [...]
IAEA’s Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Newsletter – August 2019 edition
28/08/2019 - The 10th Nutritional & Health-related Environmental Studies Newsletter features the following articles. Meeting & News Scientists converge in Kingston, Jamaica to learn how to assess gut [...]