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The 2025 digital edition of the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition presents the status of key food security and nutrition indicators, based on the latest...

Millions of children and adolescents are growing up in environments where sugary drinks, salty and sweet snacks and fast foods, including ultra-processed foods and beverages, are highly...

In 2024, twenty-five million people in Asia and the Pacific escaped hunger, reducing undernourishment to 6.4 percent from 7.0 percent in 2023. Yet, the region still accounts for nearly...

The 2025 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition reveals a stark deterioration in food security across the Arab States in 2024, where hunger reached its highest...

Indonesia, like many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), faces a double burden of malnutrition, with undernutrition and obesity coexisting within its population. Despite previous studies analyzing...

This sixth progress report marks a critical juncture between two European Union programming cycles: 2014-2020 and 2021-2027. The report provides an update on achievements with respect to the two...

The aim of this report is to provide region-and country-specific evidence on the links between food systems and obesity in South Asia to support effective government policies and actions to reduce the burden...

Highlights: Strong GDP growth (Austria 5.0 %, Netherlands 4.8 %) significantly boosts food security (SEM=0.845), showing economic resilience. High cereal...

Key messages: Stunting in children under five years of age has declined since 2008 but remains significant, affecting one in five in rural areas and one in ten...

Objective This study aimed to assess the prevalence of the double burden of malnutrition (DBM) at the individual level in children and adolescents through a comprehensive literature review. Sources Electronic databases...