Building on last year's momentum, nutrition projects have the potential to improve the lives of vast numbers of children, as long as we learn from past successes and failures
2013 was a golden year for nutrition, with ramped up political attention and massive financial pledges. But 2014 has to be the year when this momentum is translated into measurable impact and child stunting dramatically reduces across the world.
There has been much recent discourse on 'scaling up' in nutrition, but what do we mean by it? In response to the sobering words of the first Lancet Nutrition Series in 2008, which described the international nutrition system as "fragmented and dysfunctional," the Scaling Up Nutrition (Sun) movement is now driving the global momentum.
Forty five countries (which include nearly 60% of the world's stunted children) have now signed up to the Sun movement - the glaring exception is India, home to over one third of the world's stunted children. In London last June, the Nutrition for Growth summit made history by generating over $23bn (£14bn) in pledges to tackle undernutrition (over $4bn for nutrition-specific and $19bn for nutrition-sensitive interventions).
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