Endorsements

Michael Kocher, President, Aga Khan Foundation

The Aga Khan Development Network welcomes the 2026 Global Nutrition Report and its call for more integrated food and health system approaches to protect nutrition amid conflict, financing constraints, and environmental shocks. The report’s evidence-based analysis highlights how interconnected crises are undermining nutrition outcomes and reinforces the importance of cross-sector collaboration grounded in country experience. This aligns closely with the longstanding work of the Aga Khan Foundation, Aga Khan University, Aga Khan Health Services, and partners to strengthen health systems, improve food security and social protection, and generate evidence across fragile settings. We hope the report will guide governments, donors, and development partners in accelerating progress against malnutrition.

Laura Barrington, Coordinator, Capacity for Nutrition – National Information Platforms for Nutrition (C4N-NIPN), Knowledge for Nutrition Programme

Amid converging crises in climate, health and overseas development financing, the 2026 Global Nutrition Report provides both an analytical and practical framework for achieving healthy diets through more coordinated action across food and health systems. Its approach strongly reflects the experience of the National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN), which have evolved into a powerful mechanism for multisectoral, country-led and evidence-informed nutrition action. By strengthening national leadership, governance and institutional capacity, NIPN has demonstrated the value of flexible, collaborative approaches. The report’s recommendations are practical and grounded in real-world challenges, offering a focused path toward the global nutrition targets and Sustainable Development Goals.

Jozef Síkela, Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission

Climate change threatens food and health systems, straining access to balanced nutrition. Addressing this requires integrating food security into climate investment, ensuring solutions benefit people and the planet. Poor nutrition harms productivity, deepens inequality and puts prosperity at risk - demanding coordinated action from governments, businesses and civil society.

The European Union (EU) leads in combating global malnutrition, and the 2026 Global Nutrition Report provides evidence needed for stronger collective efforts. Better cross-sector coordination is vital. Through Global Gateway, the EU funds evidence-based approaches linking nutrition to broader Sustainable Development Goals. By strengthening policy and delivery, we can turn commitments into impact and build resilience against global challenges.

Baroness Jennifer Chapman, Minister for Development and Africa, United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report is a timely reminder of the importance of tackling malnutrition and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. The report highlights key areas that we need to focus on to ensure sustainable, long-term nutrition action, working across food and health systems and promoting integrated approaches which bring together nutrition, environmental, equity and economic outcomes. It also highlights the high cost-benefit return from scaling up nutrition actions through existing primary healthcare platforms and social protection systems as well as supporting more nutritious food systems. This resonates strongly with the UK’s priorities on development, climate and women and girls. The UK remains committed to tackling malnutrition in all its forms, and we look forward to collaborating with partners to support integrated approaches that deliver co-benefits on health, poverty, women’s empowerment and climate resilience.

Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development), Canada

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report shows that nutrition is deeply connected to climate change, health and sustainable development. It also makes clear that our food and health systems are under real pressure as climate impacts and other overlapping crises grow. Even so, the report reminds us that progress is possible. By strengthening national institutions and making nutrition a core part of everyday health and food systems, countries can protect communities and maintain hard-won gains, even in tight fiscal times. Canada supports the call to move past isolated efforts and focus on integrated, country-led solutions. This approach guides initiatives like the Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Systems Fund, which helps farmers in developing countries access the support they need to adopt sustainable practices that improve food and nutrition security. These efforts show what system-based action can achieve, but the report is clear that more work lies ahead. Canada remains committed to working with partners to support healthier lives for all.

Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

This Global Nutrition Report has highlighted vital issues that we all must work to resolve: integrating food and health systems, mitigating trade-offs between human and planetary outcomes and meaningfully mitigating gender power asymmetries in decision-making at all levels. But for me the most powerful finding is the gap between promises and subsequent action. One year on from the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Paris 2025 Summit, that gap is a chasm. We must redouble our work, together, to construct that bridge from promise to action. The billions of people that cannot afford a healthy diet deserve no less.

Shawn Baker, Executive Vice President, Programs and Partnerships, Helen Keller Intl

This edition of the Global Nutrition Report comes at a critical juncture where global promises to deliver the benefits of good nutrition to the most vulnerable women and children in the world are imperiled. Despite an ever-more compelling evidence base demonstrating good nutrition saves lives and lays the foundation for cognitive and physical development, it remains one of the most under-invested domains of global development. The N4G Paris 2025 Summit was a major burst of political, policy and financial commitments, as well as hope in the face of devastating cuts to donor budgets. It is essential to hold all stakeholders accountable for these commitments and to continue prioritising proven investments and policies to put the world back on track to meet nutrition targets for 2030. The 2026 Global Nutrition Report is a call to action on how to face down the headwinds that are hitting the most at-risk communities the hardest.

Johan Swinnen, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

We are pleased to endorse the 2026 Global Nutrition Report, and to witness the GNR’s evolution since our early hosting. The report is a welcome call to action in a world where financing is fragmented, data and research systems are under-resourced and the use of high-quality evidence to support effective policies and actions remains a challenge. As IFPRI’s own work connects food systems, health systems and social protection-linked actions for nutrition, with a strong lens on gender and economic inclusion, the report’s messages resonate strongly with us. We especially commend the report’s efforts to track nutrition financing commitments and clarion call on moving from commitments to concrete actions to deliver whilst managing policy trade-offs. IFPRI looks forward to collaborating with the community in taking forward these recommendations. The burden of global malnutrition on the future well-being of humanity and the potential for policy action and financing that simultaneously address nutrition, economic equity and planetary well-being are too important to ignore.

Michael Gaffey, Director General, lrish Aid, Government of lreland

I welcome this timely publication of the 2026 Global Nutrition Report. lreland has a steadfast commitment to addressing hunger and malnutrition, which are among humanity's greatest challenges. Nutrition is a development imperative. At WHA78, lreland was proud to lead efforts to extend the global nutrition targets to 2030, as progress to-date has been inadequate. We cannot afford to relent in our efforts.

This report highlights the centrality of health and food systems to improved nutrition outcomes globally. The report's synthesis of data, best practices and policy guidance can help drive ambitious, achievable actions at local, national and global levels.

I encourage all stakeholders to champion efforts in turning the targets into tangible realities, improve maternal and child health outcomes and deliver sustainable development for all.

Éléonore Caroit, Minister Delegate, Francophonie, International Partnerships and French Nationals Abroad, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs

Malnutrition persists as a consequence of the multiplication of conflicts, protracted crises, climate change, and shrinking development financing. We know that these crises cannot be addressed in silos. The One Health Summit and the N4G Summit that France hosted in 2025 and 2026 made a strong case for more integrated action. The 2026 Global Nutrition Report calls for better monitoring and accountability for integrated nutrition interventions. Its findings are clear-eyed: persistent gaps in gender integration, insufficient embedding of nutrition policies into climate change strategies and remaining weak substantive accountability. France welcomes these findings and reaffirms its commitment to translate N4G’s ambition into measurable and sustained results.

Joanne Raisin, Director, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat

Against a backdrop of dramatic falls in official development assistance, especially in nutrition, the highest levels of conflict since World War II, declining multilateralism and escalating food and fertiliser prices, nutrition integration offers a lifeline to keep malnutrition in focus across sectors.

Seventy-nine percent of SUN countries see cross-sectoral integration of nutrition as a means to maximise return on investments and leverage sectoral co-benefits. In fragile states in particular, we must move beyond short-term relief to a system-strengthening approach that embeds nutrition across development and peacebuilding.

Integration is at the heart of the SUN 4.0 strategy, and so we warmly welcome a growing evidence base in this report that will support policy that focuses on coordinated and integrated nutrition action and shifts gear towards a multi-year outlook.

Jessica Fanzo, Co‑Chair, SUN Movement Executive Committee and James Anderson Professor of Food Policy and Ethics, Johns Hopkins University

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report underscores the escalating threats that conflict, climate-related shocks, strained food and health systems and constrained financing pose to diets and progress towards global nutrition targets. Its emphasis on integrating food and health systems — alongside social protection, water and sanitation and stronger governance — reflects the systems-level action long championed by the SUN Movement.

The report’s recommendations provide practical pathways for countries to protect nutrition amid converging crises, including integrating nutrition into primary healthcare, prioritising nutrient-dense foods and strengthening accountability. The SUN Movement stands ready to support governments and partners to translate these recommendations into country-led action and accelerate progress towards better nutrition for all.

Neema Lugangira, Co-Chair, SUN Movement Executive Committee and Former Member of Parliament Tanzania (2020-2025)

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report comes at a defining moment for the global nutrition agenda. In a world shaped by climate shocks, conflict and economic instability, the report makes clear that nutrition is central to resilience, human capital and sustainable development. As the SUN Movement advances its 4.0 vision, the priority must now shift from commitments to implementation through stronger political leadership, integrated food and health systems and accountable financing. The report rightly highlights the importance of resilient agrifood systems, food safety, regional trade and investment in farmers, women and small- and medium-sized enterprises. Achieving the 2030 global nutrition targets will require bold leadership, operational delivery and renewed accountability and, above all, empowering countries to lead with financing, technical support and partnerships aligned behind national priorities and delivery.

Matt Freeman, Executive Director, Stronger Foundations for Nutrition

Nutrition is the foundation for healthy families on a thriving planet. Good food builds resilience, strengthening bodies and minds to navigate shocks that are more frequent and more intense than ever before. As we move towards an uncertain future, we must build a new food system centred on human health. This will only happen through partnership — across the public and private sectors, across health and food systems and around the world. The 2026 Global Nutrition Report, with its thoughtful analysis of these intersections and spotlight on the N4G Summit commitments, calls us to build on existing partnerships and embrace unlikely alliances as we seek to nourish people and planet together.

Alexandra Newlands, Head, SUN Civil Society Network and Irshad Danish, Chair, SUN Civil Society Network's Steering Group

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report arrives at a pivotal moment, as climate change increasingly threatens communities' nutritional wellbeing. Its focus on integrating food and health systems is both timely and vital. On behalf of the SUN Civil Society Network, active across over 60 countries, we strongly welcome its call for integrated action and stronger accountability. Civil society- and youth-led mechanisms have proven effective in driving responsive policies and equitable outcomes, particularly for women, children and climate-vulnerable communities. Meaningful engagement of young people and vulnerable populations remains essential to foster innovation and ensure commitments reflect lived realities. We must move beyond commitments towards measurable and collective action, investing in locally led solutions and protecting civic space, to ensure no one is left behind.

Cindy Hensley McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report calls on all of us to elevate our ambitions and address nutrition challenges head‑on. It offers a timely and authoritative analysis of the widening gap between nutrition needs and available resources. The World Food Programme welcomes the report’s strong call for integrated action across systems to save lives and reduce needs. The report is a critical tool to strengthen accountability and guide collective efforts toward improved nutrition and more sustainable, resilient food systems. We commend the Independent Expert Group for this important work.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization

Climate change threatens to undermine decades of progress in global health. The 2026 Global Nutrition Report highlights the interlinked roles of food, health, social protection and water and sanitation systems in building resilience to climate disasters. The report develops an integrated framework for transforming food and health systems that both responds to the changing environment and contributes to reducing greenhouse emissions. Tackling the simultaneous challenges of climate change, food system transformation and health system strengthening is critical to achieving healthy nutrition for all.