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Nutrition policy

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Parent topic

Food & Nutrition Security

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Child being fed in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Nutrition for Development (N4D)

Project

Ongoing

Last Updated: 13 October 2025

Nutrition for Development (N4D) seeks to strengthen collaboration and partnerships between the EC, member states, and partner countries, with the wider aim to reduce maternal and child malnutrition.

Worldwide

Food & Nutrition Security

Acute undernutrition

Nutrition policy

+26

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

Food Social transfers

Micro nutrients supplementation

Nutrition monitoring

Nutrition programmes

Obesity

Fisheries and food security

Agricultural policy and statistics

Food crop production

Climate smart agriculture

Climate adaptation

Sustainable Development Goals

Food access and availability

Resilience

Gender policy

Basic health care

Water, Health & Sanitation

Disease prevention and Health promotion

Health in the humanitarian-development nexus

Nutrition and health

Health policies & policy dialogue

Livelihoods

Public policy analysis

Value chains

Decent work and labour marked policies

Basic Sanitation

Knowledge and research for nutrition

Info page

Last updated: 19 September 2025 08:34

Posted on Nutrition for Development (N4D)

The Knowledge and Research for Nutrition project of the European Commission aims to provide improved knowledge and evidence for policy and programme design, management and monitoring and evaluation in order to reach better...

Worldwide

Food & Nutrition Security

Nutrition policy

Nutrition programmes

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

Progress in ensuring the allocation of EUR 3.5 billion to nutrition

Info page

Last updated: 14 May 2025 16:15

Posted on Nutrition for Development (N4D)

Total EU nutrition commitments in the period 2014-2020 amounted to over €4.3 billion and means that the EU’s target of committing €3.5 billion towards nutrition in the period 2014-2020 was surpassed by €835 million. In 2021, the...

Worldwide

Food & Nutrition Security

Nutrition monitoring

Nutrition policy

Nutrition programmes

Lessons from Canada: Ending hunger through a national food policy

Article

Voices & Views

Last updated: 22 January 2025

Four million Canadians live in a state of food insecurity. Can the country’s new national food policy be the solution?

Worldwide

Food & Nutrition Security

Food Security Governance

Nutrition policy

Nutrition programmes

Country profiles on nutrition

Info page

Last updated: 18 December 2024 11:25

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KC Kim Clausen

posted on Nutrition for Development (N4D)

Nutrition forms part of the 360-degree approach of the EU’s Global Gateway. The EU's support for nutrition focuses on more than 55 partner countries that have prioritised nutrition in one of the action areas of their multi-annual...

Benin

Burkina Faso

The Gambia

+53

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Angola

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Botswana

Lesotho

Namibia

Eswatini

Burundi

Djibouti

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Madagascar

Malawi

Mozambique

Rwanda

Somalia

South Sudan

Sudan

Uganda

Tanzania

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Cuba

Haiti

Yemen

Tajikistan

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Nepal

Pakistan

Cambodia

Laos

Myanmar

Philippines

Papua New Guinea

Agriculture & Rural Development

Climate change & disaster risks

Food & Nutrition Security

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

Nutrition policy

Nutrition programmes

Gender

Health

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Progress in supporting partner countries to reduce the number of children stunted

Info page

Last updated: 14 May 2025 16:15

Posted on Nutrition for Development (N4D)

According to current projections this target is ‘on track’ in the 40 baseline countries. Of these countries, 39 have since 2012 reduced the prevalence of stunting, with an average reduction of 7.2 percentage points, or 7.1 million...

Worldwide

Food & Nutrition Security

Nutrition monitoring

Nutrition policy

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

CANTEEN - Collaboration and Networking to Enhance Education and Nutrition in Laos

Project

Completed

Last Updated: 04 May 2023

The overall objective of the action is to strengthen the capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Local Authorities (LAs) to work in partnership towards the achievement of development goals.

Laos

Agriculture & Rural Development

Agricultural policy and statistics

Family and smallholder farming

+16

Food crop production

Food & Nutrition Security

Acute undernutrition

Food quality

Food Security Governance

Food utilisation

Livestock and food security

Micro nutrients supplementation

Nutrition monitoring

Nutrition policy

Nutrition programmes

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

Health

Health policies & policy dialogue

Human Resources

Nutrition and health

PAFO-COLEACP Innovation Session : Session N°5: Food and Nutrition Security: the contribution of MSMEs and businesses 22 July 2021, 12:00-14:00 (GMT)

Discussion

Information

Last updated: 14 May 2025 13:50

Posted on Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA

We will feature various SMEs and entrepreneurs across different value chains in Africa producing and processing healthy and nutritious food. Join us. Programme : https://lnkd.in/d6KjYxT Register: https://lnkd.in/dqZiT97

Agriculture & Rural Development

Food & Nutrition Security

Private Sector

Agriculture value chains and commodities

Farmers organisations

Nutrition policy

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

Food quality

Food safety

Value chains

SMEs

Entrepreneurship

Jun

2021

COVID Recovery: Why investments in nutrition cannot wait.

Event

Conference

Posted on

Nutrition for Development (N4D)

Join us on Tuesday, June 8 for COVID Recovery: Why investments in nutrition cannot wait, a session during the WHO Food Systems Summit Dialogues: Health Talks discussing the impact of the pandemic and the urgency to prioritize...

Organised by

Standing Together for Nutrition (STfN)

Online

Food & Nutrition Security

Nutrition policy

Nutrition programmes

Nutrition interventions (specific and sensitive)

Report: The business case for investment in nutrition

Discussion

Information

Created: 08 July 2020 14:48

SC Sarah CUMMINGS

posted on Private sector in agricultural innovation and development

This new report from Chatham House: the Royal Institute of International Affairs, published on 8 July 2020 and written by a group of authors including Laura Wellesley, aims to reveal the hidden costs of malnutrition for business...

Food & Nutrition Security

Food Security Governance

Nutrition policy

Private Sector

Research for Private sector development and industry

SMEs