The world is in the midst of a food crisis. While nearly everyone on the planet has seen the cost of food increase or supply chain bottlenecks, some countries are now teetering on the edge — or already falling into — major food security declines, or even famine.

At the sidelines of Devex’s “Reversing malnutrition trends” event at the 77th United Nations General Assembly last week, Gerda Verburg, who leads the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement, sat down with Devex Senior Reporter Teresa Welsh to discuss why nutrition is the fundamental building block of development, and what can be done to achieve fundamental food systems reform.