UNGA Aspect Event | 21 SEPTEMBER 2021 | TUESDAY
| 08:00-09:00 EST | 14:00-15:00 CST |
Host: WHO
Background:
In 2019 the UN Food stuff Programs Summit was declared by the UN Secretary-Common, Antonio Guterres, as a section of the Decade of Action for supply on the SDGs by 2030. The aim of the Summit is to provide progress on all 17 of the SDGs by way of
a food items methods approach, leveraging the interconnectedness of food units to worldwide difficulties this sort of as malnutrition, local climate adjust, poverty, and inequality. The Meals Techniques Summit alone will be a wholly digital celebration on Thursday, 23 September
2021 through the UN Basic Assembly.
The UN Foodstuff Techniques Summit Secretariat is searching to associates and UN organizations to understand the vision of a ‘Peoples Summit’ by fostering inclusion, interaction, and engagement through supporting momentum, setting up situations and digital activations
major to the Summit.
As an UN Anchor Company and member of the UN Taskforce of the UN Meals Methods Summit, WHO is advancing its function less than the 2030 SDG Agenda and 10 years of Motion on Nourishment (2016-2025) to help Member States in direction of nutritious food stuff technique transformation.
This consists of the release of steering, info briefs, implementation frameworks and applications to scale up action and maximize effects and present a compass for healthier food stuff process transformation.
About this celebration
In opposition to the backdrop of the UN Foods Units Summit the Entire world Health Organization is keeping a digital teaser function to pre-launch its six briefs on actions in the
food process to provide much better overall health and nourishment for all:
- Community Foods Procurement
- Fiscal Insurance policies
- Regulating of Internet marketing to Children
- Diet Labelling
- Foodstuff Fortification
- Meals Merchandise Reformulation
Throughout the function WHO will introduce the 6 new briefs, as very well as recent work on food items security, that aim to tell coverage makers and their advisors on proof-based mostly interventions to make food stuff devices more healthy and supply place for sharing of activities
of diverse food program actors that are joined to this intervention deal.
The quick occasion aims to offer facts to countries’ selection makers and foods technique actors on these evidence-based mostly food stuff technique interventions although they are in the system of acquiring their countrywide pathways for meals method transformation and assistance
them to accomplish the global nourishment and NCD targets by 2025, and the SDGs by 2030.
It will also demonstrate the backlink of the six promoted meals programs steps to the aims and vision of the Nutritious Diet plans Coalition to be launched at the Food items Programs Summit.
Kindly take note that the occasion is conducted in English language only.
