In the wake of the 2007–2008 global food price crisis, which exposed the vulnerability of food and nutrition systems, a 2008 Lancet series on maternal and child undernutrition confronted the international community with the scale of the problem. The Copenhagen Consensus armed them with an economic imperative, and the Scaling up Nutrition Movement was born in response. Timeline Date Tue, 01/01/2008 - 12:00