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Did you know? The seven commitments made by FAO in relation to the Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit 2025 are now publicly available (pages 451-457), demonstrating the Organization’s dedication to nutrition as well as its commitment to transparency and accountability.
The Paris N4G Summit 2025 took place earlier this year, convening a cross-section of stakeholders striving to eliminate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms. Participants announced financial and policy commitments and set the path toward 2030 with concrete recommendations to the global community.
The Organization’s commitments align with the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31 to increase the integration of nutrition into global, regional and country level initiatives across agrifood systems. They support Members to reach country-level, nutrition-related targets of the SDGs. They also include global efforts to increase access to high-quality dietary data and country-to-country engagement for reducing food loss and waste as global public goods. By making these commitments visible to Members, partners and other stakeholders, FAO reinforces its accountablility to increase efforts needed to fulfil them.
Seven commitments by 2030
1. FAO will increase the percentage of projects that are both nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart by 50 percent over the 2024 baseline.
2. FAO will increase the percentage of nutrition-sensitive projects and programmes by 50 percent over the 2020-21 baseline.
3. FAO will increase the percentage of nutrition-sensitive projects in its emergency portfolio by 50 percent over the 2024 baseline.
4. FAO will increase the percentage of projects that are both nutrition-sensitive and gender-sensitive by 50 percent over the 2024 baseline.
5. Through the Food and Diet Domain of FAOSTAT, FAO will provide access to statistics on healthy diets and nutrition coming from at least 60 percent of UN Member States for setting, monitoring and evaluating evidence-based nutrition policy and programming.
6. To increase access to data on food loss and waste, FAO will expand the Food Loss and Waste Community of Practice integrated into the G20 Technical Platform for Food Loss and Waste by 30 percent over the 2024 baseline.
7. FAO commits to increasing the number of countries sharing data on gender gaps in food security and access to healthy diets through the Gender Domain in FAOSTAT by 50 percent per year.
The N4G Summits are high-level global gatherings that bring together governments, organizations and stakeholders to drive commitments and coordinated action toward ending malnutrition and improving nutrition worldwide.
The first N4G Summit was held in 2013 in London, where more than 100 stakeholders pledged over USD 23 billion to improve nutrition outcomes worldwide. In 2021, Japan hosted the Tokyo N4G Summit, where FAO made bold policy commitments to increase its impact on nutrition by enabling healthy diets and improving nutrition through the food and agriculture sector. Most recently, the Paris N4G Summit 2025 mobilised approximately USD 30.5 billion in financial commitments, a record amount, to tackle malnutrition.
Country commitments for action are key to leveraging government policy development, investments and actions on the ground. High-level commitments on the recommendations made at the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in 2014, including financial commitments, made by governments and their partners through the N4G Summits are important contributions towards achieving the aims of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025), now extended to 2030. The outcomes of the N4G Summits are reflected in the UN Secretary-General reports on the Decade’s implementation.