Every year, unhealthy diets cause 11 million deaths, and are related to 6 of the top 10 risk factors for the global burden of disease. Currently 3 billion people (one in three people worldwide) cannot afford a healthy diet. The risk that unhealthy diets pose to mortality and morbidity is now greater than the risks of air pollution, alcohol, drug and tobacco combined. Low-quality diets are also fueled by unsustainable practices, which define our food systems: they are one of the causes driving deforestation, biodiversity loss, the depletion of our oceans and the emergence of zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Measuring healthy diets is key in understanding malnutrition, and the 2025 SDG Indicator Review gives us a chance to adopt this more efficient and comprehensive approach. 

For this reason, the Permanent Representations of Switzerland and Brazil, with the technical cooperation of the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN) of FAO, would like to invite you to this event to gather support for the current proposal to include a Minimum Dietary Diversity Indicator in the measurement of the Sustainable Development Goal #2.

Objectives

• Raise awareness on the proposal for a diet quality indicator in the SDG2 
• Demonstrate the importance of addressing malnutrition through a healthy diets approach 
• Gather support from Member States

More details, and a full agenda, can be found here.

English and French interpretation will be available.