This year's report should dispel any lingering doubts that the world is moving backwards in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms. We are now only eight years away from 2030, but the distance to reach many of the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) targets...

This 2017 report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world warns that the long-term declining trend in undernourishment seems to have come to a halt and may have reversed, largely on account of conflict and human-induced and natural disasters. Meanwhile, though progress continues to...

This report provides an update on progress towards the 2030 targets (SDGs and WHA) at the regional and country level. Selected indicators look at undernourishment, food insecurity, childhood stunting, wasting and overweight, adult overweight, child minimum acceptable diet, exclusive and continued...

Lipid-based ready-to-use foods (RUF) for the nutritional management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are low-moisture foods (LMF) provided to children from 6 months to 59 months of age within the context of emergency feeding programmes supervised by...

This publication provides an overview on the structure and mechanics of collecting food consumption data, as advocated by the GEMS/Food programme. Relevant food classification systems, hardware and software requirements, and specific database contents are described.

In 2014, WHO in collaboration with UNICEF, established a Network for Global Monitoring and Support for Implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and Subsequent relevant World Health Assembly Resolutions (NetCode). The following countries participated in...

This book summarizes the guiding principles for feeding infants and young children during emergencies, which include aspects of breast feeding, use of breast milk substitutes, complementary feeding, caregiving (caring for caregivers and providing them with the necessary tools to perform their...

The book provides a practical guide to measures needed to ensure that the food and nutrition needs of disaster-stricken populations, refugees, or internally displaced persons are adequately met. The book has seven chapters. The first, on meeting nutritional requirements, explains the importance of...

This technical report presents results from the FEEDcities Project - Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a cross-sectional survey conducted in Almaty, Aktau and Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan, between July and August 2017, to evaluate the local street food environment. It characterized the vending sites, the...