nutrition

Photo: WHO/SEARO/Anuradha Sarup
WHO/SEARO/Anuradha Sarup

Most countries lack adequate laws to protect and promote breastfeeding – UN

9 May 2016
Laws to protect breastfeeding against the growing multi-billion-dollar breast-milk substitute business are inadequate in most countries, exposing small children to a greater risk of childhood diseases, according to a United Nations report released today.
A family having a meal in Kyrgyzstan.
FAO/Sergey Kozmin

At regional session, UN agricultural agency urges sustainable development for better nutrition

4 May 2016
While many countries in Europe and Central Asia have made progress in reducing the prevalence of hunger, other forms of malnutrition still exist in the region and can only be combatted by prioritizing food security, agriculture and rural development, the head of the United Nation’s agricultural agency said today.
Shoppers in Beijing, China, buying fresh produce.
FAO/Justin Jin

New UN Decade aims to eradicate hunger, prevent malnutrition

4 April 2016
Calling attention to the nearly 800 million chronically undernourished people and over two billion with micronutrient deficiencies, the United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2016 the start of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition.
Family in Southeast Asia.
UN OCHA

South-east Asia's children face 'double burden' of obesity and undernutrition – UN report

28 March 2016
A joint report released today by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has shed new light on the nutrition situation of children across the region.
P!nk visits with children during a trip to Haiti with UNICEF.
UNICEF USA

Renowned recording artist P!nk named newest UNICEF Ambassador

1 December 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has appointed Grammy award-winning recording artist P!nk as the newest UNICEF Ambassador, and announced that she will build on her current role as the agency’s Kid Power National Spokesperson to raise awareness about its lifesaving health and nutrition programmes around the world.
Community volunteers measure a child with malnutrition at a food distribution centre in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), near Tawila, North Darfur. UN File Photo/Albert González Farran

Nuclear techniques to help better understand causes of stunting

18 November 2015
General News

Work is underway to try and identify reasons for child stunting beyond poor nutrition, and the answer may be found with nuclear technology according to the UN.

In 2014, one in every four children under five years of age was stunted, a total of 159 million globally.

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World Bank File Photo/Julio Pantoja

Scientists ponder role of bacteria in nutrition

30 June 2015
General News

What’s the relationship between a type of bacteria found in the human stomach and nutritional status?

That’s what the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and scientists are trying to establish.

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The Mediterranean diet’s focus on vegetable oil, cereals, vegetables and pulses, and moderate intake of fish and meat, has been associated with long and healthy living.
FAO/Ami Vitale

An age-old model of healthy living, the Mediterranean diet is now under threat – UN

11 June 2015
The Mediterranean region is undergoing a “nutrition transition” away from its traditional diet, long revered as a model for healthy living and sustainable food systems and known for preserving the environment and empowering local producers, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.
This picture was taken in the north of Vietnam at Sapa Market, where WFP found many children for whom a daily family meal still remains a mirage.
WFP/Roberta Sassolini

UN agency photo competition shines spotlight on ‘family meal’ in achieving 'Zero Hunger'

23 February 2015
Scenes of families eating together in Burundi, Laos and the Philippines today won a photo competition judged by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver aimed at demonstrating “the simple yet powerful role provided by sitting together and eating as a family,” the World Food Programme (WFP) announced.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva closes the General Debate of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) at FAO Headquarters in Rome.
FAO/Alessandra Benedetti

UN conference generates renewed global momentum to eradicate malnutrition

21 November 2014
In a move hailed as renewed global momentum to end hunger, leaders from over 170 countries attending a United Nations nutrition conference which concluded today, pledged to establish national policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition – in all its forms from, hunger to obesity – and transform food systems to make nutritious diets available to all.