Commitment

By 2025, at least 90 percent of FAO country offices will be actively providing support to host governments in efforts oriented to the realization of FAOs vision for nutrition of a world where all people are eating healthy diets from efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems.

Multilateral organisation / Italy

January 2022 — December 2025

Description

FAO will intensify efforts in supporting Members to reach their SDG targets including using data and evidence on healthy diets, convening for policy coherence and catalyzing action, building capacity on nutrition and strengthening commitment. FAO will monitor the progress of FAO country offices providing support to host governments based on the FAO Country Annual Report. The commitment is aligned with FAO Implementation Plan for Nutrition.

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Agrifood systems for healthy diets

Description

FAO’s vision for nutrition is a world where all people eat healthy diets from efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood 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 agrifood 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 SDGs and the nutrition-related World Health Assembly targets for Nutrition and diet-related Non-communicable disease.FAOs pledge will be made at the Summit and will be lodged in the Tokyo N4G Summit Compact and the Global Nutrition Report’s Nutrition Accountability Framework (NAF). 1. FAO pledges to ensure its policy environment is supportive of achievements in nutrition outcomes. The FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31 describes how FAO supports the Agenda 2030 through the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood 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 agrifood systems’ ability to enhance nutrition, including strengthening nutrition-specific activities and nutrition-sensitive approaches in all aspects of the Organization’s work, including initiatives in the sectors of agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and climate-change and natural resource management. 3. FAO pledges to support Members to reduce 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 Organization, FAO developed, at the request of Members, the Voluntary Code of Conduct for Food Loss and Waste Reduction (CoC). In support to Members to reach 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 to reach country-level nutrition-related targets of the SDGs. 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 in supporting Members to reach their SDG targets.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Verified
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SMARTness index
Upper moderate
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Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Leadership and governance
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Percentage of FAO country offices providing support to host governments in efforts oriented to the realization of FAOs vision for nutrition.
Value Measurement date
Baseline 63% 2020
Target 90% December 2025

Progress

Status:
Off Course
Why this status?
The reported progress indicates that the expected level thus far had not yet been achieved and is not expected to be achieved by the end date, but as the end date is not yet reached, it could be still be possible to reach and maintain the target level.
Value Measurement date
Progress report 69% December 2023

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