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In the outlook period from June to October 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 13 countries and territories identified as hotspots and are issuing an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in these hotspots.…

United Against Malnutrition & Hunger (UAMH) submitted evidence to the International Development Committee's inquiry on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and is cited in this subsequent report. This cross-party International Development Committee (IDC) report, released on 12 June 2025, on humanitarian access and adherence to international humanitarian law (IHL), examines how the UK can support access…

Produced by the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) and the Ministry of Defence, this handbook presents the rules of International Humanitarian Law that contribute to avoiding and addressing food insecurity in situations of armed conflict. An understanding of the law promotes better compliance, contributing to the UK’s broader efforts to prevent and mitigate acute food insecurity and…

A report from Save the Children. In 2024, 18.2 million children were born into hunger. Mounting debt burdens are shrinking fiscal space for many governments, undermining their ability to adequately fund critical public services and make long term investments in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) including SDG 2 Zero Hunger. The report calls for urgent…

The International Development Committee (IDC) conducted an inquiry into the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and wider UK Government’s work on hunger and nutrition around the world and work towards achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in line with SDG2. It examined the impact on this work of significant ongoing cuts to the UK aid…

This report from Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, Building resilience and enhancing nutrition in Africa’s food systems, was produced in collaboration with the governments of Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia. It is the result of a 15-month study examining the resilience of food systems in these countries. Funded by Irish Aid,…

Welcome to United Against Malnutrition & Hunger’s second newsletter, which covers May to December 2024. It is your essential resource about the work happening in our alliance and the sector to address the outrage of global malnutrition and hunger, which is arguably the starkest expression of inequality that there is. In his message from our…

On Tuesday 5 November 2024, United Against Malnutrition & Hunger (UAMH) hosted an event at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on Hunger and Conflict: The Deadly Cycle. Parliamentarians, think tanks, veterans and reservists, and representatives from civil society explored the key question: how can we break the deadly cycle of hunger and conflict? This…

According to the latest Hunger Hotspots report, GNAFC partners – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) – warn that acute food insecurity is set to increase in both magnitude and severity across 22 countries and territories from November 2024 to May 2025, the spread…

Despite a 44% decline in child stunting from 1990 to 2022, progress is insufficient. The Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024 expands the focus to include low birthweight and obesity, adding policy considerations, operational guidance for country-level implementation, and gender and climate change perspectives. An additional $13 billion annually is needed to scale up nutrition interventions,…

Concern Worldwide UK’s report Nutrition and climate integration for transformative actions, raises the importance of tackling the malnutrition and climate change crises simultaneously, by integrating nutrition and climate actions as an essential response to these crises. The report advocates for integration, as a process of planning and implementing policies and programmes that address nutrition needs…

Food is foundational to development. Good and accessible nutrition, most critically at the start of life and during pregnancy, provides the path to a world of greater equality, prosperity, and peace.

Read United Against Malnutrition and Hunger’s briefing on malnutrition. It contains key facts and figures, and UAMH's recommendations to improve nutrition and food security.

The 2024 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report presents updates on the food security and nutrition situation around the world including the latest estimates of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet. The report also looks at ways in which governments can repurpose their current support…

This eighth edition of the report, produced annually by the Food Security Information Network, shows that global hunger is increasing.

Stronger Foundations is a global philanthropic community for ending malnutrition. It provides access to research, analysis, and tools to help funders – and development partners – navigate the investment landscape for malnutrition. Its Resource Centre provides bite size briefs, such as this one on transforming food systems.

A roadmap to improve global maternal nutrition with MMS from the Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies consortium

Most African countries spent more repaying external debts than on healthcare or education – and in some cases both – last year as the continent experiences its worst debt crisis in a generation, according to this report by Christian Aid.

UAMH's submission to the call for evidence.

Stronger Foundations is a global philanthropic community for ending malnutrition. It provides access to research, analysis, and tools to help funders – and development partners – navigate the investment landscape for malnutrition. Its Resource Centre provides bite size briefs, such as this one.

The Action Agenda was co-created with, and supported by a coalition of partners, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

UAMH’s submission to the IDC inquiry: The UK Government’s work on achieving SDG2: Zero Hunger

This paper makes the case for renewed commitment from the UK to tackle malnutrition. It describes a set of targeted, strategic investments and policy changes that could save nearly three quarters of a million lives and deliver over 300 million interventions to vulnerable women and children over the next five years.

This report is a stocktake analysis from the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition (ICAN UK), of the UK ODA spending and projects on nutrition interventions.

How might innovative finance catalyse hundreds of millions into the global nutrition sector?

Analysis released at the launch of UAMH: UK urged to prioritise malnutrition and hunger as numbers facing crisis levels of food insecurity double