Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)

A/RES/79/276View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 13 Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields, published in 2025.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2018–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/276	Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)	3,522	53%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/285	Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)	2,564	18%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/306	Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025)	852	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2022

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2022	A/76/796	Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/72/306

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Food Security International Decades Nutrition Programme Implementation

What’s in this document?

24 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) covering the period 2022–2023;⁴

⁴A/78/865.

Also takes note with appreciation of the organization of informal consultations in 2020 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, at the midterm of the Decade, to review progress made, barriers encountered and gaps identified over the first half of the Decade, from 2016 to 2020;

Reiterates the Decade’s vision to build a world where all countries, organizations and others working on nutrition coordinate action and strengthen collaboration so that all people at all times and at all stages of life have access to affordable, diversified, safe and healthy diets;

Underlines that the Decade was proclaimed to accelerate implementation of the Second International Conference on Nutrition commitments, achieve global nutrition and diet-related noncommunicable disease targets by 2025, contribute to the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and put the spotlight on nutrition at the highest political level;

Recognizes the commitments made by Governments, and acknowledges the contributions by all relevant stakeholders at the local, national, regional and international levels, including United Nations organizations, civil society, academia and the private sector, in advancing the implementation of the Decade;

Reiterates the importance of the Decade and its call for, inter alia, the scaling up of implementation of national commitments and increasing investments for nutrition;

Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to integrate nutrition objectives across all sectors, to track investments in nutrition, and to consider proactive measures to limit the consumption of foods high in saturated fat, trans-fats, free sugar and/or salt and protect the population against encouragement towards their consumption, as appropriate and taking into account national contexts and priorities;

Emphasizes the importance of international cooperation, multilateralism and solidarity in the global response to achieve food security and improved nutrition for all, including through universal health coverage, social protection, technology transfer on mutually agreed terms, capacity-building and financial support for sustainable agricultural development in developing countries;

Encourages and recognizes the efforts at all levels to establish and strengthen social protection measures and programmes, including national safety nets and protection programmes for the needy and those in vulnerable situations, such as food and cash-for-work, cash transfer and voucher programmes, school feeding programmes and mother-and-child nutrition programmes, and in this regard underlines the importance of increasing investment, capacity-building and systems development, by aligning interventions with national and regional response plans, making full use of endogenous mechanisms, including local, national and regional reserves;

Emphasizes that a multisectoral approach that integrates nutrition across all sectors, including agriculture, health, water and sanitation, social protection and education, as well as a gender perspective, is critical to achieving global food security and improved nutrition and the realization of the right to food;

Looks forward to the World Health Assembly consideration of the proposal for an extension of the six World Health Assembly global nutrition targets to 2030 in alignment with the decade of action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals;

Emphasizes the need to advance the global nutrition agenda in a manner consistent with the right to adequate food and in a coherent way across multiple sectors, to maintain political momentum to scale up nutrition action in the context of the follow-up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit and to promote coordination between ongoing processes, including the work of the Committee on World Food Security, the coalitions, commitments and national pathways emanating from the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit, and the work programme of the Decade;

Urges Member States to make food security, food safety and nutrition a high priority, to reflect this in their national programmes and budgets and to strengthen the rules-based, non‑discriminatory, open, fair, inclusive, equitable and transparent multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core;

Calls upon Member States to keep their food markets open to maintain international trade in food and fertilizers;

Stresses the need to increase sustainable agricultural production and productivity globally, noting the diversity of agricultural conditions and systems, including by improving and aiming to ensure the functioning of markets and trading systems and strengthening international cooperation, particularly for developing countries, and by increasing responsible public and private investments and partnerships in sustainable agriculture, land management and rural development, as well as collaboration in science, technology and innovation, and notes that the benefit of such public and private investment and engagement should also reach, where appropriate, local smallholders in appropriate knowledge management systems and communications systems with regard to promoting food security, improving nutrition and reducing inequality and all forms of malnutrition;

Recognizes that more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems have a fundamental role to play in promoting healthy diets and improving nutrition and preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases, and welcomes the formulation and implementation of national policies aimed at eradicating malnutrition in all its forms and transforming agrifood systems so as to make nutritious diets, including traditional healthy diets, available to all, while reaffirming that health, water and sanitation systems must be strengthened simultaneously to end malnutrition;

Calls upon all Member States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations to take measures and support programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers, in particular during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and in children, and the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, in particular from birth to the age of 2 years;

Calls upon Member States to accelerate efforts across the six action areas of the work programme of the Decade to ensure that food systems deliver affordable, healthy diets for all, in line with context-specific conditions, policies and strategies; nutrition actions are integrated into national health systems and universal health coverage plans, including essential health services; shock-responsive and nutrition-sensitive social protections, education and nutrition programmes are scaled up; investments in nutrition in the agrifood sector are increased; coherence between trade and agriculture policy and nutrition is promoted; and that governance for nutrition at all levels is strengthened;

Recalls that the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition was originally programmed to conclude in 2025, and in that regard requests the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization, in keeping with Economic and Social Council resolution 1989/84 of 24 May 1989, to convene informal dialogues in 2025 with Member States and stakeholders to reflect on the implementation of the Decade;

Decides to extend the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition to 2030, to align it with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and to maintain the political momentum at the global, regional and national levels to ending malnutrition in all its forms by 2030;

Calls upon the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization:

To continue to lead and monitor the implementation of the Decade, in collaboration with the World Food Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the United Nations Children’s Fund, using coordination mechanisms, such as UN-Nutrition, and multi-stakeholder platforms, such as the Committee on World Food Security, in line with its mandate, and in consultation with other international and regional organizations and platforms;

To further strengthen their efforts, along with other UN-Nutrition member agencies, in advancing the global nutrition agenda and addressing underserved action areas of the work programme of the Decade;

Recalls its invitation to the Secretary-General to inform the General Assembly about the implementation of the Decade, on the basis of the biennial reports jointly compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

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