A delegation attends Committee on Food Security 20 October 2011, Rome -- Malawi is one of the first countries to have joined the Scaling Up Nutrition movement. Its government at the highest level recognizes that healthy, well-nourished people are both the outcome of successful social and economic development and an essential input into the development process. This has allowed the country to emerge from a major nutritional crisis in the early 2000s and to make significant progress towards achieving MDG1.