*Record breaking* [image: French Prime Minister François Bayrou delivers a speech to various politicians at the Nutrition for Growth summit on March 27, 2025 in Paris, France.] 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.
