Malnutrition results from having an unbalanced diet. The condition is common amongst children and it affects their intellectual development. According to a UNICEF Report, more than 20 million children around the world suffer from severe malnutrition with 300,000 of them hailing from the Horn of Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa over 40 percent of the children are malnourished. The main causes of malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa are high levels of poverty, poor government policies and drought. All these have contributed to limited food stocks. When a community has high number of childhood deaths, it has had a knock-on effect in the sense that there are fewer hands to do agricultural work and so agricultural productivity declines. It is time for governments and legislators to make political commitments to reduce malnutrition. Scaling up nutrition in Africa requires political commitment to demand the allocation of resources, high impact interventions in health targeting mothers and children, programs in food security, agriculture, water, hygiene and sanitation and social protection, which can all be done through the parliaments.