Nutrition at the nexus: What the 2026 Global Nutrition Report reveals about building stronger, integrated systems for nutrition
Access to healthy diets depends on more than what food, health or social protection systems deliver. These systems shape different parts of the conditions needed for good nutrition, but are often planned, financed and delivered separately. Improving nutrition requires intentional integration across systems, supported by the governance, resourcing, operational capacity and data needed to make them work together.
This brief explores how food, health and social protection systems shape access to healthy diets, why siloed approaches often underperform and how the Food and Health Systems for Equitable Nutrition (FHEN) Framework can help guide more integrated solutions.
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2026 Global Nutrition Report
Chapter 07: Conceptualising the interconnectedness of food systems and health systems
Chapter 7 introduces the report’s new framework for achieving healthy diets by making the food–health system interconnections and climate pressures explicit. It sets out four enabling functions—governance, financing, operational capacity and data—to guide integrated design, implementation and accountability.
2026 Global Nutrition Report
Chapter 08: Recommendations and policy implications
Chapter 8 translates evidence into practical recommendations for governments, donors, accountability bodies, civil society and the private sector to strengthen integrated food–health action under climate change. It organises priorities around the framework’s four enablers to support more resilient delivery, clearer trade-off management and stronger equity.