FAO in Geneva

Informal Member States Briefing on the Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)

18/11/2016

The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Ecuador in Geneva, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), organized an Informal Member States Briefing on the Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025).  

The Decade of Action on Nutrition, under the normative framework of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in April 2016. Member States committed to 10 years of sustained and coherent action to eradicate all forms of malnutrition: this marks a new ambition and direction in global nutrition action. 

In particular, FAO and WHO have been called upon to lead the implementation of the Decade, and to identify and develop a work programme.