title: The Sustainable Development Goals cannot be achieved without improving maternal and child nutrition.
abstract: Poor nutrition is a global pandemic with social, economic, and environmental causes and consequences. Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only SDG2 explicitly mentions nutrition. Turning the aspirations of the SDGs into reality will require recognition that good nutrition ensured through sustainable agriculture, is simultaneously an absolutely fundamental input and output. Because all of the other SDGs are directly or indirectly linked to improving nutrition, funding to improve nutrition is essential to success for many SDGs. Greater focus on cooperation across disciplines to advance the science of program delivery and to understand the full contribution of nutrition to many desirable outcomes as part of development are surely the ways forward. Missing today's opportunities to advance thinking and program implementation for more effectively improving nutrition for all, especially for women and children, will lead to a wider failure to meet the SDGs.
authors.affiliation: Center for Food Science and Nutrition, College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. kaleabbaye@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Kaleab
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Baye
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D002648:Child; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D040361:Healthy People Programs / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control; D039382:Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009752:Nutritional Status; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D016387:Women's Health
keywords: child nutrition; girls; health; stunting; sustainable development; women