Stepping up – Everyone around the table for better nutrition and healthy diets
01/01/2021
This is a series of papers intended to highlight current understandings, gaps and misconceptions about engaging with businesses in the food system.
STEP 1 unpacks the role of the private sector, especially of SMEs, in sustainably nourishing the world. It reinforces the growing consensus that food systems, and the SME activities within them, must be transformed by stakeholders from all sectors.

Step 2: Shaping the enabling environment
STEP 2 sets out some channels to advance this agenda by improving the enabling environment – the policies, incentives, rules and regulations that shape behaviours (and enable good practice). Though governments lead in this area, there are clear responsibilities for all stakeholders.

STEP 3 looks more closely at what it means to go to scale with healthy diets and better nutrition, providing examples and reflections for all stakeholders to consider.
Working towards SDGs:
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