This report was jointly prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAORAP), United Nations Children’s Fund, East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (UNICEF EAPRO) and the Regional Office for South Asia (UNICEF ROSA), the World Food Programme Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (WFP RBB) and the World Health Organization South East Asia Regional Office (WHO SEARO) and the Western Pacific Regional Office (WHO WPRO). Recent trends in food insecurity and malnutrition in Asia and the Pacific are at odds with the region’s high economic growth. The region has maintained its leadership position as the economically fastest-growing region with declining poverty. However, progress towards the targets for the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is less than satisfactory. The 2016 Asia-Pacific regional report on Food Security and Nutrition indicated that only a handful of countries were likely to meet the 2030 SDG 2 target with the recent rates of hunger reduction (FAO, 2016a). Data for the last few years show that, rather than improving, the rate of hunger reduction is slowing down and even reversing for some countries. The situation is similarly challenging for a number of other nutrition indicators and a large majority of countries in the region risk missing the SDG 2 and World Health Assembly (WHA) global nutrition targets.