World Cancer Research Fund International’s response to the WHO’s consultation on the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025: priority actions on nutrition for the next five years.
Submitted 2021.
This brief was developed by World Cancer Research Fund International and NCD Alliance. It focuses on SMART commitments that target overweight and obesity and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It illustrates how recommendations from the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Framework for Action can be translated into SMART policy commitments.
The brief is available in summary and extended versions in English, as well as in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
Published in 2016–17.
Building momentum: lessons on implementing a robust sugar sweetened beverage tax provides advice to policymakers about designing and implementing a sugar sweetened beverage tax in the face of various challenges caused by lack of political and public will, and industry interference.
Our response to the public consultation for the modification of the norm on food and beverage labelling in Mexico.
Submitted December 2019.
Driving action to prevent cancer and other non-communicable diseases is a policy framework for promoting healthy diets, physical activity and breastfeeding, and reducing alcohol consumption. The policy framework can be used to consider policy actions that will help make environments conducive for people and communities to follow our Cancer Prevention Recommendations.
Published in 2018.
The NOURISHING nutrition policy index brief outlines the status of diet-related policy in 30 European countries. It was developed as part of the CO-CREATE project and can be used by stakeholders to promote ways to reduce overweight and obesity.
The NOURISHING nutrition policy index brief is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
The zip file contains the individual country snapshots in English, all the snapshots in one file and the policy brief.
Published May 2023.
This Methods Document sets out the process we took to identify and present national-level, implemented policy actions in physical activity and healthy diets around the world. It sets out the processes for 2 distinct scans of policy actions to populate the NOURISHING and MOVING databases in a consistent way over time. It was first developed in 2019 and updated in 2024.
A summary of the Methods Document is also available as well as the Technical Annex.