Urge the UK government to take bold action on global malnutrition

The world is facing a malnutrition crisis. 733 million people faced hunger in 2023 -- that’s over ten times as many people living in the UK.  

Ongoing conflicts and the effects of climate change means that unless we do something about it, things are only going to get worse. 

It doesn’t have to be this way. 

At the upcoming Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit on March 28th, the world has an opportunity to make life-saving commitments that will end malnutrition for good. 

The UK can make a real difference. It has the ability to make a strong financial contribution, lend its leading policy expertise, and use its global influence.  That’s why we’re asking Foreign Secretary David Lammy to make a strong commitment towards nutrition, and towards a healthier, well-fed world. 

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We call on the UK government to: 

  • Commit to invest at least £500 million in programmes that directly tackle nutrition between 2025-2030 
  • Maximise the impact of spending in other key areas, including health, agriculture and climate, by ensuring at least £2.5 billion of the UK’s overseas development assistance budget incorporates nutrition between 2025-2030 
  • Set an ambition to reach at least 50 million children, women and adolescent girls with nutrition-related interventions by 2030 
  • Integrate nutrition across development sectors, to make meaningful progress in tackling the underlying causes of malnutrition. This includes setting ambitious targets for integrating nutrition across climate, agriculture and health; and to increase nutrition spending in these sectors 
  • Put gender equality at the heart of nutrition programmes by ensuring that at least 90% of nutrition spending incorporates gender considerations 
  • Build on the UK’s nutrition policy expertise by partnering with governments and research institutions to fund research in key areas such as preventing malnutrition, child wasting, adolescent nutrition and immunisation-nutrition integration.

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