How can cities provide healthy and nutritious food to all children within the planetary boundaries? The World Urban Forum provides a unique opportunity to direct attention to this question, placing the topic in the context of the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals and bringing together actors from a range of sectors.
Cities are an important platform for improving the foods that children eat, since the majority of children live in urban and peri-urban settings and many lower-middle income countries face multiple burdens of malnutrition – where challenges of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity can have long-term consequences.
By joining forces at the World Urban Forum, EAT, C40, UNICEF and partners seek to place child nutrition in both a health and sustainability context and elevate the topic in the urban agenda.