Rome Nutrition Week 2026

Coming soon

Coming soon

Coming soon

Coming soon

Nutrition Evidence and Innovation for Shaping Agrifood Systems Transformation

This thematic area will focus on how healthy diets and nutrition are fundamental levers for agrifood systems transformation and how evidence and innovation can be better harnessed to accelerate this.   

Transforming agrifood systems to deliver healthy diets for all requires bold, evidence-based and innovative approaches that place nutrition at the center of global commitments. Focusing on nutrition outcomes in agrifood system transformation efforts can benefit agriculture, health, environment, and social inclusion to achieve shared goals for now and the future. Leveraging cutting edge research, data, and new technologies, countries and institutions can strengthen their capacity to design policies and actions that drive broad systemwide transformation while improving nutrition outcomes. This means recognizing how healthy diets and nutrition are interconnected with equity and inclusion, and healthy ecosystems, climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human, animal, plant and environmental health – core principles of the One Health approach. Evidence and innovation together enable us to understand these linkages, anticipate tradeoffs, and identify solutions that generate co-benefits across sectors. 

Local Food Solutions for Global Impact

This thematic area will spotlight locally led, practical opportunities in cities, territories, regions, or nations that can contribute to a stable, durable supply of nutritious foods for healthy diets, responding to local demand. The events will feature a diverse portfolio of solutions – from regionally and locally fortified staples to locally produced specialized nutritious foods (SNFs) and commercially produced complementary foods (CPCFs) to minimally processed foods, neglected and underutilized species, and fresh produce – designed to improve diets for both the general population and vulnerable groups in crisis and stable settings.  

In the collaborative spirit of Rome Nutrition Week, discussions will highlight innovations across key delivery platforms, including social protection systems, such as shock-responsive safety nets and school meals), health and nutrition services, community and civil society platforms, digital and market-based channels, humanitarian response mechanisms, and public procurement models. It will also explore how different modalities of cash, vouchers, and in kind can enable access to local nutritious foods through these platforms. 

Aligning Finance for Nutrition Integration

This thematic area will contribute to advancing multilateral and country-driven approaches to mobilizing, aligning, and scaling financing for nutrition across sectors and partners. It will also look at exploring innovative financing mechanisms to channel additional resources and fill the nutrition investment gap, including through Public-Private Producer Partnerships, risk management and innovative credit tools and smart subsidies, migrant remittances, social bonds, climate-related financing, and diaspora investments.  

The events will strengthen coordination, improve investment tracking and M&E systems, and better articulate the value proposition of nutrition investments. Emphasis will be placed on leveraging MDB’s engagement and mobilizing private capital to accelerate progress toward national and global nutrition commitments.  

Thematic Sessions will highlight innovative financing instruments, co-financing models, blended finance, and public–private partnerships that integrate nutrition and gender equality into food systems, health, social protection and climate investments. Proposals should align with N4G priorities, support country ownership and multilateral cooperation, and generate practical lessons to inform policy dialogue, investment decisions, and collective action to improve nutrition outcomes. 

Delivering as One for Coherent Nutrition Action

This thematic area will highlight examples – across all levels – of acting, speaking, and learning as one. It will emphasize an integrated approach as essential for ensuring the delivery of stronger, more efficient, and more impactful policies that drive real progress toward the SDGs and Global Nutrition Targets.  

Examples include coordination and coherence in: (1) whole-of-government approaches for intersectoral action on nutrition; (2) UN system-wide approaches to optimize technical support; (3) multi-level collaboration across global, national, subnational, and local actors; (4) multistakeholder approaches; and (5) other relevant models. Applications that discuss how nutrition funding cuts are shaping the future of joint nutrition action are also very welcome, highlighting the current and foreseen funding challenges and their real‑world consequences, while also showcasing some of the most cost‑effective, high‑impact interventions currently at risk.