Building a Healthier Blue Pacific through Better Nutrition

Abstract

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Strategic Framework 2022-2031 supports the 2030 Agenda through the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable, agrifood systems through the “four betters” aspirations: better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. These Four Betters represent an organising principle for how FAO contributes directly to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 (No poverty), 2 (Zero hunger), and 10 (Reduced inequalities) as well as to supporting achievement of the broader SDG agenda that is crucial for attaining FAO’s overall vision. Better Nutrition (BN) aims to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition in all its forms including promoting nutritious food and increasing access to healthy diets. The absence of an indicator of diet quality in the SDG indicator framework has been identified as a gap in the monitoring of progress towards the 2030 Agenda. This paper covers Better Nutrition in the Pacific, and report on FAO Subregional Office for the Pacifoc progress on Better Nutrition, to be presented at the 2024 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum, held in Nadi, Fiji in November 2024.