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Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have countered debilitating deficiencies that lead to conditions like rickets and pellagra, and have increased health and wellbeing around the globe.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI) is the UN system’s flagship assessment of global hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition, produced jointly by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. It tracks progress toward SDG 2 through the latest global and regional estimates on food insecurity, diet quality and the global nutrition…