Record breaking


The Nutrition for Growth, or N4G, summit in Paris, France, has mobilized more than $27 billion toward ending malnutrition worldwide, French President Emmanuel Macron announced yesterday afternoon. It broke the record set at the previous summit in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021, with more pledges trickling in.

And it’s despite a difficult environment for fundraising, with foreign aid cuts by several Western donors including the United States, United Kingdom, and even the N4G host country. The U.S. did not send a delegation to the summit this year — in 2021 it had pledged $13 million — and the U.K., which hosted the first N4G summit in 2012, did not make a financial commitment but co-launched a coalition on integrating nutrition across sectors. France, the host country, pledged to spend more than $750 million on tackling malnutrition by 2030. A finalized list of pledges is due out later today.

The other big news yesterday was an announcement by a group of philanthropies that committed to spend more than $2 billion on malnutrition. Among them were the Gates Foundation, which committed $750 million; the Rockefeller Foundation, which committed $100 million toward school meals; the Bezos Family Foundation, which pledged to match $500 million in donations to the Child Nutrition Fund; the Eleanor Crook Foundation, which pledged up to $50 million toward scaling up prenatal vitamins; the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network with $10 million; and others.