Scaling Up Nutrition: Policy Recommendations for Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Paris 2025

The urgency of transforming food systems to favour human and planetary health has never been greater. Food systems are not currently optimized to enable sustainable, healthy and nutritious diets for all – i.e., systems that ensure nutrient adequacy without excess, energy balance, diversity and moderation in consumption of unhealthy foods, while protecting and enhancing the environment, protecting consumers’ health, respecting consumers’ choices and cultures, supporting social equity and promoting the resilience of food systems in the face of climate change and other global challenges. As of 2024, an estimated 2.8 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet and progress to address all forms of malnutrition has stagnated.1 Poor diets, a common cause of all forms of malnutrition, are shifting throughout the world in ways that are unhealthy for both humans and the planet. Multiple factors determine what people eat, including economic, cultural and individual preferences. Access to nutritious foods is a challenge for many while commercial interests also play a role.