Fueling the Business of Nutrition

This discussion paper asks what is needed to unlock greater commercial investment into value chains that can improve access to nutritious foods among low-income consumers in developing and emerging markets, with a special focus on the small and medium enterprises that currently struggle the most to obtain it. For brevity, we will refer to “nutritious food value chains” and “SMEs that improve access to nutritious and safe foods.”

The paper does not focus on attracting or steering investment into multinationals based on their nutrition impacts, or on encouraging them to invest their own resources in developing more nutritious products. However, multinationals could be one source of investment into smaller, more local companies via corporate venturing or acquisition