Global Nutrition Report (GNR)

The 2026 Global Nutrition Report examines how climate change, health challenges, economic pressures, conflict, and declining development financing are converging to threaten progress on global nutrition. Framing these interacting pressures as a polycrisis, the report argues that protecting nutrition requires coordinated and integrated action across food systems, health systems, social protection, and water and sanitation services. It finds that countries with pre-existing integrated and flexible systems were better able to respond to shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict, and climate-related emergencies. The report highlights both the opportunities and trade-offs associated with climate-smart agriculture, sustainable healthy diets, and food loss and waste reduction, while identifying persistent weaknesses in food-health integration, gender inclusion, and substantive accountability in nutrition commitments. It concludes that achieving healthy diets for all will require more intentional management of trade-offs, stronger cross-sector coordination, and governance approaches that integrate food, health, climate, and social equity objectives.