The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has called on
the government across the world to take concrete action on malnutrition in all
its forms, reports NaijaAgroNet.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva also said that
the United Nations (UN) Decade of Nutrition offers a critical window for
advances.
He also pointed out that the 10 years running until 2025,
will be a critical time for action to build healthy and sustainable food
systems and end malnutrition in all its forms, stressed at the just ended
United Nations General Assembly celebrating the United Nations Decade of Action
on Nutrition.
"The purpose of the Decade of Action on Nutrition is to
continue to draw the world`s attention to the importance of combatting
malnutrition," he said, reminding governments of their commitments made at
the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in 2014 and called on
them to transform those commitments into action through national policies and
programmes.
Better governance on nutrition globally, he said,
"starts at country level" emphasizing that nowadays, one in three
people worldwide, pointing out that nearly 2.5 billion people suffer from at
least one form of malnutrition, ranging from hunger to obesity to a lack of
critical nutrients.
"FAO has maintained a great synergy with WHO in leading
the efforts in the fight against all forms of malnutrition. WHO is the lead in
nutrition and FAO is here to complement that work. FAO has developed a work
plan focused on the promotion of healthy food and healthy diets through
nutritional education and the transformation of food systems," said
Graziano da Silva.
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