United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development

The international nutrition community has made great advances in understanding the root causes, effects and magnitude of global malnutrition and human suffering. However much work remains. Members of the international nutrition community recognize the need to better integrate their work with the work of its partners in development. The Spanish version is available here.

Nutrition: A Foundation For Development is a compilation of briefs on of the latest research findings in nutrition as they relate to other development sectors. The briefs are designed to facilitate dialogue between nutrition and other development professionals. They are organized both as a complete set or as stand-alone briefs that make the case for integrating nutrition into the work of the development community.

Stand Alone briefs (in English):

• No 1. Nutrition: Making the Case
• No 2. Nutrition and Education
• No 3. Nutrition and Population
• No 4. Nutrition and Health
• No 5. Nutrition and The Environment
• No 6. Nutrition and Agriculture
• No 7. Nutrition and Gender
• No 8. Nutrition and Poverty
• No 9. Nutrition and Crises
• No 10. Nutrition and Human Rights
• No 11. Nutrition and Communities
• No 12. Nutrition and Politics

An informal Farsi translation is available here. This informal Farsi translation by Reza Amani and Davoud Vahabzadeh has kindly been made available to the SCN for its Farsi readership. Dr Amani is Head, Department of Nutrition, Ahvaz Jundi-Shapour University of Medical Sciences, Davoud Vahabzadeh is an MSc student at the Ahvaz Jundi-Shapour University of Medical Sciences. They can be contacted through the SCN Secretariat (scn@who.int).