Recent crises, conflicts, and climate change disrupt food systems, leading to multiple consequences including setbacks in maternal and child nutrition. This threatens equity and compromises human capital and economic productivity, particularly among the most vulnerable in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To revert such trends and achieve SDG 2.2 goals, cross-sectoral, gender-sensitive, and climate-centered approaches are needed, coupled with innovative policy measures and financing strategies.
This Collection showcases the efforts the World Bank to update the 2017 Investment Framework on Nutrition and seeks to provide evidence on effective and scalable interventions, policy measures, and financing strategies to improve nutrition outcomes for healthier, more sustainable, and more equitable outcomes. Consistent with this vision, this Collection focuses on studies addressing nutrition interventions/policies across multiple sectors (including health, social protection, agriculture, water, education) to improve the targets of SDG 2.2. (i.e., stunting, wasting, low birthweight, anemia, breastfeeding, obesity) in LMICs. It includes literature reviews, economic evaluations, implementation research, and quantitative studies targeting innovative mechanisms to address the immediate need to secure a healthier, more equitable, and more sustainable nutrition landscape future for the next generation.
