In line with its organizational mandate to “rais[e] levels of nutrition”, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) commits to the Nutrition Decade as a means to reinvigorate this fundamental vocation.

As co-convenor of the implementation of ICN2 and the Nutrition Decade, FAO will focus its efforts on the following priority areas.

• Strengthening national information systems for informed policy-making
• Supporting countries with policy and technical assistance to strengthen the focus on nutrition in their agricultural policies and investments
• Supporting and building capacity of countries to promote healthy diets
• Supporting countries to incorporate a food systems approach as a sustainable way of addressing malnutrition in all its forms
• Strengthening and promoting nutrition governance, accountability and communication

For further information, kindly refer to FAO's full commitment below.