Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: The Global Action Plan on Child Wasting called upon the World Health Organization (WHO) to create updated guidance for governments in preventing and managing child wasting...

In 2020, a resolution titled ‘‘Strengthening efforts on food safety’’ was adopted by the Seventy-third World Health Assembly. In the resolution, Member States requested WHO to update the WHO...

The minimum dietary diversity (MDD) indicator as defined by the WHO is commonly used to assess micronutrient deficiency in young children. However, individual food item-specific consumption patterns...

This paper examines the relationship between women’s empowerment and infant and young child feeding practices in Central Asia using Demographic and Health Survey data from 1995–2017. We...

The global prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. Even though in 2013, obesity reduction was agreed on as one of the Global Nutrition Targets, the world is off track...

Background The school-based food and nutrition guidelines approach has the potential to combat undernutrition, overnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among children and adolescents and set the foundation for a healthy adult...

This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions. The findings are based on estimates using unit-level data, data...

This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions. The findings are based on estimates using unit-level data, data...

This Data Note describes the trends for a set of key nutrition and health outcomes, determinants, and coverage of interventions. The findings are based on estimates using unit-level data, data...