Nutrition under pressure: What the 2026 Global Nutrition Report reveals about systemic risks to healthy diets for all
Nutrition depends on food and health systems and services that can mitigate, adapt to and recover from shocks. Climate change, conflict, pandemics and economic instability are increasingly interacting, disrupting food, health and social protection systems and affecting access to healthy diets. As these pressures converge, strengthening the resilience of those systems and services is critical to protecting nutrition.
This introductory brief examines how overlapping shocks and stressors affect nutrition outcomes, why current approaches are falling short and what countries can do to strengthen resilience through more integrated action.