How can businesses operating in the food system accelerate improvements in nutrition?

AbstractThis chapter outlines some of the actions that businesses within food systems can take to improve nutrition outcomes and what governments and civil society can do to incentivize them to do so. There are three sets of actions to get businesses to do more to improve nutrition status: (i) creating demand for nutritious foods; (ii) improving the supply and affordability of nutritious foods; and (iii) creating an enabling environment for businesses to improve nutrition. The chapter argues that a failure to incentivize businesses to do more to improve nutrition results in missed opportunities to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goal target of ending malnutrition by 2030.