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.