The world is out of the way to meet global nutrition goals and a significant number of children remain malnourished and no country is stopping the rise of adult obesity, while the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are increasing costs towards meeting healthy eating goals.

This is underlined by the latest global nutrition report, which for Albania shows that it has made little progress in terms of improving the quality of nutrition and reducing obesity. According to the report, Albania ranks last among countries such as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, in terms of low indicators of improvement in: overweight in adults, low birth weight in children and malnutrition in children.

This year’s report shows that current progress in nutrition is sadly insufficient. There is an urgent need to step up the fight against poor diets and malnutrition to address rising levels of preventable disease, death and planet damage.

Without strong food action by nations, the report points out, the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to have a long-term impact in terms of maternal and child malnutrition (brain underdevelopment, anemia). Covid-19 is estimated to have pushed 155 million people into extreme poverty globally, and it is estimated that around 118 million more people were facing hunger in 2020 than in 2019, due to Covid-19, combined with ongoing conflict and change climatic.

Given the acceleration of the pandemic in many low- and middle-income countries by 2021, unless new action is taken, the report estimates that the real impact may be closer to the most pessimistic scenario, in terms of infant mortality, the spread of anemia et.

The Global Nutrition Report is the world's leading report on the state of global nutrition. It is data-driven and independently produced each year to shed light on where progress has been made and to identify where challenges remain.

The report aims to inspire governments, civil society and private stakeholders to take action to end malnutrition in all its forms. It also plays an important role in helping stakeholders account for the commitments they have made towards tackling malnutrition.

To meet the global nutrition targets in most countries, we need very accelerated progress. The world is out of the way to meet global nutrition goals and unacceptable levels of malnutrition continue.

A significant number of children remain malnourished and no country is stopping the rise of adult obesity, while the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are further alienating us.

Our diets have not improved over the last decade and are a major threat to our health and the planet.

Diets around the world are far from healthy and deaths that turn out to be avoidable have increased by 15% since 2010, now accounting for a quarter of all adult deaths per year.

The financial costs of tackling poor diets and malnutrition are rising, while resources are projected to fall, but more resources are likely to be mobilized. The additional funding needed to meet the nutrition objectives has increased significantly, in part due to the effects of Covid-19.

An additional $ 10.8 billion is needed each year from 2022-2030 to meet targets for weight loss, stagnation, anemia, and breastfeeding alone. In particular, private and innovative forms of financing have significant potential, while the effectiveness of existing investments can be improved.

Growing Nutrition Tracking (N4G) highlights challenges in meeting past commitments, measuring progress, and enabling accountability - this year of Nutrition Action must be a moment of restoration.

While there has been positive progress towards realizing the N4G commitments made in 2013 and 2017, countries are struggling to meet financial and impact objectives, and measuring progress has been difficult. The new Nutrition Responsibility Framework created by GNR has been created to facilitate stronger actions.

(Source: Monitor)