Nutrition for Growth Summit aims at tackling malnutrition

Nutrition for Growth Summit aims at tackling malnutrition

The importance of eating well and regularly has been underscored here in Paris at a special nutrition summit. After trying to solve the security issues of Ukraine, French president Emmanuel Macron atttended the event. The Rockefeller Foundation donated 100 million dollars to help provide school meals across the world. The scheme is called Nutrition for Growth or N4G. We speak to Rockefeller Foundation Executive Vice President Liz Yee.

As the Nutrition for Growth Summit opens on Thursday 27 March in Paris, a "Sets Village" welcomed the public this Wednesday. The objective: to raise awareness of the challenges of malnutrition and highlight possible responses, especially in Africa. In a global context marked by the decline in funding, local actors continue to mobilize.

The Summit Nutrition for Growth 2025 is opening in Paris as the humanitarian sector is concerned about the decline in funding for development aid. Michael Siegel, Managing Director of Action Contre la Faim France, is the eco guest of franceinfo.

France supports global vision for ‘strong agriculture, healthy nutrition’

“I truly believe that our health and the health of the planet are inextricably linked,” he told the Paris 2025 Summit yesterday. “This is also a planetary issue, which is why I have pushed for France to support a global vision where strong agriculture and healthy nutrition are two pillars of our collective health. I have often called this ‘nutritional sovereignty’, in other words, the ability for a country to meet the needs of its people and esp…

The Prime Minister of France, François Bayrou, assured that his country will continue to be committed to international aid programmes, including those that combat malnutrition, as a way to counter “insulationist temptations”. “France will continue to make nutrition a bilateral and multilateral priority also through the global food programme, of which France is the fifth country to contribute the most,” Bayrou said at the opening of the ‘Nutritio…

After completing her agenda in Japan, where she was received by the imperial couple, First Lady Janja Lula da Silva participated in the opening of the N4G (Nutrition For Growth) initiative summit in Paris, France, on the morning of Thursday (March 27, 2025). “I would like to remind you that, by the end of this event, thousands of children will have died in the world due to lack of food, hunger and malnutrition,” said the First Lady during the re…