Research and policy agendas should focus on who and what is given space in nutrition debates, how power is exercised, knowledge of alternative and sustainable food systems, and incorporating equality issues in the design and evaluation of interventions. Instituting levies on the food industry to fund public and community initiatives to address malnutrition, encouraging diffuse power concentration and democratic food governance, and increasing the role of advocacy partners in research and evaluations are important to address the causes of malnutrition.