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• Food security and nutrition security are related but distinct concepts.

• Food security refers to having enough of the right foods at all times, and depends on the availability of food globally and locally, and on the household’s and individual’s access and proper utilization.

• Good nutrition (or nutrition security) also requires having enough of the right foods, but in addition, it requires having access to adequate feeding, caregiving and hygiene practices, as well as access to health, water and sanitation services. Nutrition security thus depends on having access to a healthy diet which provides all nutrients required for a healthy life, and being healthy so that the body can make optimal use of these nutrients for its different functions.

• Food security is necessary, but not sufficient, to ensure nutrition and to prevent childhood malnutrition. Children also need their caregivers to provide them with appropriate feeding, caregiving, hygiene, and health-seeking practices in order to grow, develop and stay healthy.

• Infants, young children, pregnant and breastfeeding women are especially vulnerable to malnutrition; nutrition interventions must focus on the critical ‘First 1,000 Days’ window of opportunity.

• Achieving food and nutrition security is a multi-faceted challenge which requires a multi-sectoral approach; food systems can play a critical role in protecting both food security and nutrition if careful attention is paid to targeting the poor, reducing inequalities, - including gender inequalities -, and incorporating nutrition goals and action where relevant.