(AGENPARL) – Fri 21 March 2025 FAO at the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2025: Advancing Global Nutrition through Sustainable Food Systems
📍 Paris, France | 27-28 March 2025
The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit is a high-level global pledging event that convenes governments, international organizations, civil society, research institutions, philanthropies and the private sector to take decisive action against malnutrition in all its forms.
Held every four years in the host country of the Olympics and Paralympics, the summit serves as a platform for world leaders to make transformative commitments in policy, finance, and implementation to improve global nutrition. This year the event will be held in Paris from 27-28 March.
FAO’s role in N4G 2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with the organizers of the 2025 summit shares the vision of making nutrition central to sustainable development. As a key player in agrifood systems transformation, FAO will contribute expertise on nutrition-sensitive policies, sustainable food systems, data and innovative solutions.
Recently, FAO and UNICEF, the UN agency for children, became joint custodians of a new SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD), an indicator of healthy diets, addressing a crucial gap in tracking global nutrition progress. At the summit, FAO will advocate for stronger policies across sectors, better data, and more inclusive food systems to tackle malnutrition and promote healthy diets for better nutrition worldwide.
Why N4G 2025 matters
Malnutrition remains a pressing global challenge. While different forms of malnutrition have many causes, poor diets are common to them all. In 2022, over 2.8 billion people worldwide—more than a third of the global population—could not afford a healthy diet. Even in high-income regions, poor diets contribute to rising obesity and non-communicable diseases, and deficiency of several vitamins and minerals emphasizing the need for stronger policies, investments, and interventions to make healthy diets accessible for all.
The 2025 Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris aims to place nutrition at the heart of global development, strengthen political and financial commitments to combat malnutrition across multiple sectors including agrifood systems, and ensure continuity of past efforts while driving new actions for improved global nutrition.
The FAO delegation is led by Lynnette Neufeld, Director of the FAO Food and Nutrition Division (ESN).
Selected FAO-led Sessions and key contributions
(a full list can be found here)
Side Event: Mainstreaming Nutrition in Development: Unlocking the Potential of Development Banks
Wednesday 26 March 2025 | 09.30 – 11:30 CET
Châteauform, La Manufacture, 4 Esplanade de la Manufacture, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France
High-Level thematic session: nutrition and transition towards sustainable food systems
Thursday, 27 March 2025 | 10:15 – 11:30 CET
Centre de Conférences Ministériel, Salle 1C, 27 rue de la Convention, Paris
FAO will lead a high-level session on the link between nutrition and sustainable food systems, discussing strategies to promote healthy diets while ensuring climate resilience and sustainability.
Side Event: “Advancing Nutrition Financing and Accountability – A Unified African Approach”
Thursday, 27 March 2025 | 07:00 – 09:00 CET
Hôtel du Collectionneur, Paris
Side Event: Healthy diets – How to measure dietary quality?
Thursday, 27 March 2025 | 13:30 – 15:00 CET
Hôtel d’Avaray, Résidence de l’Ambassadeur des Pays-Bas, 85 Rue de Grenelle, Paris
This panel will explore how to assess and track dietary quality globally, emphasizing FAO’s new role as a joint custodian (with UNICEF) of the Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) SDG indicator.
Side Event: Maximizing the nutrition impact of school meal programmes
Friday, 28 March 2025 | 10:30 – 12:00 CET
Pullman Hotel Tour Eiffel, Paris
FAO will discuss how school meal programmes can play a crucial role in improving child nutrition and reducing food insecurity globally.
Side Event: Empowering women in agrifood systems – Pathways to gender-just nutrition and reproductive health for women and girls
Friday, 28 March 2025 | 17:30 – 19:00 CET
Paris (Venue TBC)
This session will highlight gender-inclusive approaches to nutrition and agrifood systems, ensuring that women and girls have access to nutritious food and economic opportunities.
Media
The Nutrition for Growth Summit is open to accredited press. Journalists interested in attending or covering the event can visit the 2025 Summit page for the latest information on media accreditations and access to the N4G Paris media pack, which includes practical details.
FAO’s Commitment to Nutrition
FAO’s work on nutrition includes promoting sustainable food systems to enable healthy diets for all, reducing food loss and waste to improve food security, supporting countries in integrating nutrition policies into their agrifood strategies.
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RESOURCES FOR MEDIA
FAO Nutrition Initiatives Global Nutrition Report
What are healthy diets?
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
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