Sustainable Nutrition Intervention Programmes: Innovative Evidence-Based Strategies to Modulate Malnutrition

Dear Colleagues,

Malnutrition in all its forms—undernutrition, overweights, and obesity—remains a critical global challenge, exacerbated by complex interactions between food systems, environmental pressures, and socioeconomic factors.

The Special Issue aims to include a massive coverage of evidence-based nutrition intervention strategies that prevent or modulate malnutrition [e.g., undernourishment, overweight, and obesity] through novel, sustainable approaches. The Special Issue will showcase how modern nutritional programmes tailored to the target populations’ needs [toddlers, children, adolescents, adults, pregnant and lactating women, elderly] can address acute or chronic diseases, with the strength of imparted nutrition education campaigns to cultivate sustainable behavioural change. The Special Issue will combine the roles of food policies, nutrition, and health guidelines that tackle the underlying determinants of malnutrition within the national and international frameworks [e.g., the Global Nutrition Targets, the WHO SDGs, and United Nations guidelines]. The Special Issue will also draw on the interaction of biological factors [e.g., disease risk factors, nutrition requirements, metabolic reaction and homeostasis], economic impacts [e.g., food security, food systems, agriculture systems under global warming threats], and the social determinants [e.g., inequities, inequality, poverty, socio-cultural dietary habits and perceptions] that impact nutritional and health outcomes across diverse settings, contexts and emergency environment [e.g., ready-to-use therapeutic foods that modulate severe acute malnutrition, rapid response of nutrition in emergencies in humanitarian assistance].   

Dr. Ihab Tewfik
Guest Editor

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