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For the last four years, the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) has provided an annual, consensus-based overview of the severity, magnitude and drivers of theworld’s food crises.The GRFC...

Substantial progress has been made in newborn health and survival and in preventing stillbirths over the past decade, including in countries with the highest burdens of newborn mortality. Ninety-three...

This Toolkit for Action provides UNICEF staff, and partners with one source of information on recommended nutrition actions for emergency preparedness, response and recovery. The Toolkit for Action provides a range...

The inter-agency team released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (March 2020 edition) using the same methodology as in previous...

WHO Member States endorsed six global nutrition targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition in 2012.The translation of the global targets into national ones...

Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire...

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship report jointly prepared by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO to inform on progress towards ending hunger...

The Global Report on Food Crises tracks the numbers and locations of acutely food-insecure people most in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance during the peak or worst...

The Global Report on Food Crises is the reference document on the latest estimates of acute hunger in the world. It is a public good prepared collectively by 15 leading global and regional...

For the third year in a row, there has been a rise in world hunger. The absolute number of undernourished people, i.e. those facing chronic food deprivation, has...