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Strengthening Efforts to end Hunger and all Forms of Malnutrition through Increased Global Public Engagement - GCP/GLO/481/IRE

Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) In 2021, the United Nations Secretary-General convened a Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit aimed to collect and disseminate bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems.The Summit featured five so-called “Action Tracks”, covering the key dimensions of agrifood systems transformation. Action Track 1 looks at ways to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition and reduce the incidence of diet-related non-communicable diseases, enabling all people to be nourished and healthy and to progressively realize their right to adequate food. This goal requires that all people at all times have access to sufficient quantities and quality of safe food. The project provided assistance for the work carried out under Action Track 1, with the aim of affording beneficiaries socioeconomic access to healthy diets throughout their life cycle, thereby realizing the fundamental right to adequate food.

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