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This paper describes the major institutional weaknesses in global nutrition. The authors also present two recommendations to address the joint problems of incoherence, lack of institutional leaders and persistent underfunding. First, potential funding agencies at the international level could create a shared set of principles that lay out expectations for the coordination, coherence and collaboration among institutions that currently do or might receive funding for global nutrition programs. A second priority is for leaders in UN agencies to act on specific opportunities to elevate the agenda of nutrition security within the work of the UN System High-Level Task Force for the Global Food Security Crisis.