Global Nutrition Policy

Research, Analysis, and Policy Recommendations to Support Global Nutrition

In an era of fiscal responsibility, global nutrition investment is one of the most cost-effective public health approaches, with a $16 return on every $1 invested. All forms of malnutrition negatively affect health, economies, and human security. Efforts to address nutrition at CSIS are led jointly by the Global Food and Water Security Program (GFWSP) and the Global Health Policy Center (GHPC). GHPC sees nutrition as a critical, low-cost, highly effective intervention that has far-reaching effects on its own but also as a supplementary input into the success of other health interventions such as those targeting maternal, newborn, and child health and infectious disease. The Global Food and Water Security Program has built nutrition as a critical cross-cutting component of its work to analyze global food security trends and U.S. engagement to reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition. Focal themes around nutrition include its beneficial spillover effects within other sectors of development programming and potential role in unlocking opportunities for vulnerable populations.

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Famine in Gaza

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Critical Questions by Caitlin Welsh, Anita Kirschenbaum, and Zane Swanson — April 11, 2024

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Gaza: The Impacts of Famine Will Last Generations

The consequences of famine and war are not resolved when the fighting stops. CSIS experts Zane Swanson and Caitlin Welsh discuss how Gazans will likely carry the physical, mental, and social impacts of hunger and conflict throughout their lives and across generations.

Critical Questions by Zane Swanson and Caitlin Welsh — June 20, 2024

Healthy Eating: Food, Family, and Good Nutrition

When healthy, sustainable diets are not achievable for all, societies and economies are at risk. Despite growing recognition of food and nutrition insecurity in international dialogues, it is still unclear who should do what to strengthen food systems.

Commentary by Emmy Simmons — May 19, 2023

Investments in the Future: Reversing the Dire State of Maternal Nutrition

Over one billion women and adolescent girls suffer from undernourishment. What consequences does this have on maternal and child health? What is needed to improve the dire state of global maternal nutrition?

Critical Questions by Anita Kirschenbaum, Zane Swanson, and Caitlin Welsh — April 14, 2023