Climate change, food systems and child nutrition in Indonesia

Highlights

Indonesia has made notable progress in improving child nutrition over recent decades. However, undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and food insecurity persist, while
rates of obesity and related non-communicable diseases continue to rise. These challenges are increasingly compounded by climate change. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and more frequent extreme weather events disrupt food systems and undermine food security and nutrition, particularly for vulnerable groups such as children and women.

National policy frameworks, including the National Medium‑Term Development Plan (RPJMN) and the Climate Resilience Development (CRD) Policy 2020–2045, have begun to reflect the links between nutrition and climate change. Yet policy integration across food, nutrition, and climate agendas remains limited, with few regulations explicitly addressing nutritional outcomes for women and children in climate‑vulnerable contexts.

This document presents UNICEF’s policy analysis examining how food, nutrition, and climate policies intersect in Indonesia, and identifies opportunities to strengthen coherence across sectors to support more resilient and equitable food and nutrition systems in a changing climate.