The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025
Action & Commitments
FAO commits to the Nutrition Decade
In line with its organizational mandate to “rais[e] levels of nutrition”, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) commits to the Nutrition Decade as a means to reinvigorate this fundamental vocation.
As co-convener of the implementation of ICN2 and the Nutrition Decade, FAO will focus its efforts to the following priority areas.
- Strengthening national information systems for informed policy-making
- Supporting countries with policy and technical assistance to strengthen the focus on nutrition in their agricultural policies and investments
- Supporting and building capacity of countries to promote Healthy Diets
- Supporting countries to incorporate a food systems approach as a sustainable way of addressing malnutrition in all its forms
- Strengthening and promoting nutrition governance, accountability and communication
For further information, we welcome you to read the full commitment here.
Author:
FAO
Year:
2017