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The following recommendations are proposed to bring hidden hunger to the agenda and to ensure healthy diets.

Recommendation Number 1. Practical steps should be taken at all points across the food systems to retain/increase the micronutrient density; policymakers should look for actions across food systems and align them towards a common objective. A focus should be placed not just on the production or supply-side aspects of the food system, but also on demand-side interventions that support consumers to have both the agency and the impetus to make better food choices for themselves and their families.

Recommendation Number 2. Governments and the private sector need to work together on aligning individual food systems, attaining healthy diets, and tackling micronutrient deficiencies. Extensive inter- and multi-stakeholder dialogue is required for these two parties to do this.

Recommendation Number 3. Accountability should be improved at all levels and governments committed to tackling micronutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition need to set targets.

Recommendation Number 4. Health information systems need to address key micronutrient deficiencies, relevant to the specific country context. There is a need for more data so that response efforts can be better informed and tailored accordingly.

Public-private partnerships have enormous potential to end hidden hunger. Working together across the food system, governments, private actors, and other stakeholders can ensure that interventions to address food and nutrition security are connected and considered as a system. A multidimensional, multi-stakeholder approach tailored to country-specific contexts is necessary. Engagement with the private sector is essential in order to address long-term economic and livelihood-based success that can lead to the development and implementation of sustainable opportunities and interventions to end hidden hunger.