Working together in 2022 towards realizing food and nutrition commitments
The special side event of the Commission for Social Development: 60th Session (CSocD60) will present the Coalition of Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, which was founded during the first UN Food Systems Summit in 2021. The event is Co-organized by Coalition members including Member State(s), WHO, WFP, UN Nutrition, EAT, GAIN, SUN and partners. The event will be moderated by Gerda Verburg, Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement and UN Assistant Secretary-General. The event will highlight the power of collaboration and alignment to achieve healthy diets from sustainable food systems for all through a keynote presentation, panel discussion and audience Q&A.
Background
2021 was the mid-term year of the Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016 – 2025) and indeed was a year of commitment making to accelerate action on nutrition and food systems transformation with two important Summits acting as catalysts: the UN Food Systems Summit (FSS) and the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G).
2022 is the time to work towards the realization of these commitments. Through this side event, the World Health Organization, in close collaboration with partners, will draw attention to key commitments, actions, tools, coalitions and frameworks to realize systemic change towards realizing the SDG 2030 agenda with healthy and sustainable diets at the centre.
A healthy diet from a sustainable food system is a diet that upholds the right to food and is sufficient, safe, diverse and proportionate, and produced and distributed using methods that ensure decent work, and that sustain the planet, soil, water, and biodiversity. Actions to ensure healthy diets for all have huge potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and end malnutrition in all its forms.
The Coalition of Action for Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems brings Member States, UN Agencies, Civil Society Organization’s and Academic Institutions together to align, mobilize and support collective action towards the shared vision where all people has access to healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The Coalition will strive to act as a global ‘home’ for coordinated action on healthy diets from sustainable food systems to which countries can look for support, information and inspiration, maintaining and gaining momentum from multiple stakeholders on the issue. The intended outcome of the work of the Coalition is to accelerate a substantial increase of impactful actions by stakeholders across food systems, aligned for collective impact on healthy diets from sustainable food systems.