GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT 2021
- An independently produced annual stock-take of the state of the world’s nutrition.
- It is a multi-stakeholder initiative, consisting of a Stakeholder Group, Independent Expert Group and Report Secretariat
- It was conceived following the first Nutrition for Growth Initiative Summit (N4G) in 2013 and was first published in 2014
- At the current rate of progress, the global nutrition targets will not be achieved by 2025 globally and in most countries worldwide.
- The Covid-19 pandemic is impeding progress towards achieving these targets
- Food production currently generates more than a third of all greenhouse gas emissions globally
- According to the GNR 2021, India is among the countries documented in the report as having made no progress in reducing ‘anaemia’ and ‘childhood wasting’
- India is among 53 countries ‘on course’ to meet the target for ‘stunting’, ‘childhood overweight’ and ‘exclusive breast feeding’
- According to the report, India is ‘off-course’ in meeting 7 of the 13 global nutrition targets.