United nations food systems summit 2021: shifting to healthy and sustainable consumption patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Publication date: 2022
This publication highlights the urgent need to transform food systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to address unhealthy diets, malnutrition, and NCDs. It emphasizes making nutritious, sustainable, and affordable foods more accessible while reducing reliance on unhealthy, high-calorie diets. WHO supports actions such as fiscal policies for healthy diets, regulating food marketing, improving food labeling, and reducing food waste. These efforts aim to promote healthier consumption patterns, improve nutrition, and protect the environment.
A comprehensive roadmap for reversing under-five malnutrition on the Arab states based on the sustainable development goals
Publication date: 2022
Eradicating malnutrition, which is a global problem, is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations. This study aims to analyze and identify the SDG indicators of Arab States influencing stunting, as an indicator of malnutrition, among children under 5. The study concludes that all the 17 SDGs are integral for reversing malnutrition and can be integrated into a comprehensive roadmap for reversing malnutrition. The high correlation with SDG17 suggests that conflict in the region is a significant obstacle to development.
Enhancing nutrition specific interventions through public health policies and public-private partnerships in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a desk review
Publication date: 2021
Public private partnerships in public health have been widely promoted as an effective tool for accelerating progress towards achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, including Goal 2 “to eliminate hunger”. Partnership with the private sector was found to be instrumental in improving the nutritional status of poor and food-insecure people and promoting healthy lifestyles. The objective of this study is to assess the role and contribution of the private sector in the design/implementation of nutrition-specific interventions addressing the double burden of malnutrition in countries of the Region and identify the key factors for successful public private partnership implementation.
