Investing for better nutrition: what does it mean?
Benoist Veillerette , Anna Lisa Noack | 09 December 2024After decades of investment programmes in agriculture and rural development, 2 billion people still suffer from undernutrition. How can we make sure these investments have a greater impact in reducing this number?
▶Anna Lisa Noack
Anna-Lisa Noack is a nutrition investment consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome working to incorporate nutrition in agricultural investment programming in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently working to support countries under the Zero Hunger Challenge to strengthen their nutrition policy and programs and to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages in agriculture extension curricula. She holds a Research Masters in International Development Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Her main area of work has been to understand the underlying social drivers of (changing) dietary habits.