Nutrition improvement as the top priority for child poverty reduction

Highlights

Actions and strategies to improve child nutrition

2030 Sustainable Development Goals of United Nations

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

End all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children below 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons

At least 12 of the 17 SDG are highly related to nutrition.

Author(s)

Song Wenzhen, National Working Committee on Children and Women (NWCCW)

Publication date

October 2017

Languages

Chinese, English