In support of implementation of the FAO Strategic Framework and to realize the ambition of Better Nutrition, at least 90percent of the new FAO action plans related to agrifood systems from 2022-25 will include enabling access to healthy diets as a priority.

Agri-food systems for healthy diets

FAO’s vision for nutrition is a world where all people eat healthy diets from efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems. To deliver this vision, FAO’s mission in nutrition is to tackle malnutrition in all its forms by accelerating impactful policies and actions across agri-food systems to enable healthy diets for all. In this context, FAO is pledging against the commitment areas of Food and Resilience.

These commitments will contribute to FAO effectively supporting members to achieve targets across the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the nutrition-related World Health Assembly targets for nutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases. FAO’s pledge will be made at the Tokyo N4G Summit and will be lodged in the Tokyo N4G Summit Compact and the Global Nutrition Report’s Nutrition Accountability Framework.

1. FAO pledges to ensure its policy environment supports the achievement of nutrition outcomes. The FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31 describes how FAO supports the 2030 Agenda through the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life, leaving no one behind.

2. FAO pledges to increase global and country-level initiatives impacting nutrition outcomes. FAO’s approach to nutrition is through strengthening agri-food systems’ ability to enhance nutrition, including both nutrition-specific activities and nutrition-sensitive approaches in all aspects of the organisation’s work, including initiatives in the agriculture, fisheries, forestry and climate change and natural resource management sectors.

3. FAO pledges to support members in reducing food loss and waste to increase the availability of nutritious foods. Aligned with FAO’s mandate to respond to the demands of countries and regions and its normative function as a United Nations organisation, FAO developed the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Food Loss and Waste Reduction (CoC) at the request of members. To support members reaching their SDG targets, particularly SDG 12.3, FAO will support the application and implementation of the CoC as one measure to increase the availability of nutritious foods.

4. FAO pledges to support members in reaching country-level nutrition-related SDG targets. Aligned with the intent of the FAO Strategic Framework 2022–31 to further ensure a good flow among global, regional and country-level policy and programming and its mandate to respond to demands articulated by countries and regions, FAO will intensify efforts to support members in reaching their SDG targets.