| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAH | Action Against Hunger |
| ACC/SCN | Administrative Committee on Coordination/Subcommittee on Nutrition |
| ACF | Action Contre la Faim |
| AFASS | acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe |
| ALNAP | Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Assistance |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| BMS | Breast-Milk Substitute |
| CAR | Central African Republic |
| CBO | Community-Based Organisation |
| CERF | Central Emergency Response Funds |
| CMAM | Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition |
| CRS | Catholic Relief Services |
| COMPAS | Quality assurance programme (Criteres et Outils pour la Mise en oeuvre et la Pilotage d'une Assistance humanitaire) |
| CSAS | centric systematic area sampling |
| CSB | Community-based Support Programme |
| CSFP | Community Supplementary Feeding Programme |
| CTC | Community-based Therapeutic Care |
| DEC | Disaster Executive Committee |
| DPRK | Democratic People's Republic of Kongo |
| DRC | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| ECHO | European Commission Humanitarian Office |
| ECOWAS | Economic Community of West African States |
| EEFSG | European Emergency Food Security Group |
| EMMA | Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis |
| FANTA | Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance |
| FFP | Food For Peace |
| HRI | Humanitarian Response Index |
| IBFAN | International Baby Food Action Network |
| IDP | Internally Displaced Population |
| IFE | Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies |
| IWFP | Indigenous wild food plants |
| GIFA | Geneva Infant Feeding Association |
| GIS | Geographical Information System |
| GOAL | Ireland-based relief and development charity |
| HBC | Home-Based Care |
| HINAP | Health Intelligence Network for Advanced Contingency Planning |
| HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HIV/AIDS | Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| JFFLS | Junior Farmer Field Life Schools |
| KAP | Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
| KFSCS | Kenya Food Security Coordination System |
| LQAS | Lot Quality Assurance Sampling |
| MDG | Millenium Development Goals |
| MSF | Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders) |
| MUAC | Middle-upper arm circumference |
| NGO | Non-governmental Organisation |
| NGOnut | A former online nutritional forum similar to Pronut-hiv |
| OLS | Operation Lifeline Sudan |
| ORS | Oral Rehydration Salts |
| OTP | Outpatient therapeutic programme |
| OVC | Orphans and Vulnerable Children |
| PEM | Protein energy malnutrition |
| PLWHA | People living with HIV/AIDS |
| PMTCT | Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission |
| PRRO | Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation |
| REEP | Rural Education and Economic Enhancement Programme |
| RUTF | Ready to Use Therapeutic Food |
| SAM | Severe acute malnutrition |
| SCN | Sub-Committee on Nutrition |
| SC UK | Save the Children United Kingdom |
| SFP | Supplementary Feeding Programme |
| SQUEAC | Semi- Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage |
| SRRA | Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Association |
| SUPRAID | Sudan Production Aid |
| TFP | Therapeutic Feeding Programme |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
| UNITA | National Union for the Total Independence of Angola |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WHO | Who Health Organisation |
| WTO | World Trade Organisation |