UNB, Dhaka :
In a major step towards eradicating malnutrition worldwide, over 170 countries on Wednesday made a number
of concrete commitments and adopted a series of recommendations on policies and investments aimed at ensuring that all people have access to healthier and more sustainable diets.
Ministers and senior officials responsible for health, food or agriculture and other aspects of nutrition adopted the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and a Framework for Action, which set out recommendations for policies and programmes to address nutrition across multiple sectors.
The move came at the opening, in Rome, of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a FAO media release.
The Rome Declaration on Nutrition enshrines the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, and commits governments to preventing malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said: “We have the knowledge, expertise and resources needed to overcome all forms of malnutrition.”
“Governments must lead the way,” he said. “But the push to improve global nutrition must be a joint effort, involving civil society organisations and the private sector.”
The Rome Declaration and Framework for Action, “are the starting point of our renewed efforts to
improve nutrition for all, but they are not the finishing line. Our responsibility is to transform the commitment into concrete results,” Graziano da Silva said.
“We must now redouble our efforts,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a video address to ICN2 participants. “I look forward to learning of the national commitment that each of you will make. In turn the UN system pledges to do all that it can to provide effective support,” he added.
WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, said: “The world’s food system -with its reliance on industrialized production and globalized markets – produces ample supplies, but creates some problems for public health.
In a major step towards eradicating malnutrition worldwide, over 170 countries on Wednesday made a number
of concrete commitments and adopted a series of recommendations on policies and investments aimed at ensuring that all people have access to healthier and more sustainable diets.
Ministers and senior officials responsible for health, food or agriculture and other aspects of nutrition adopted the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and a Framework for Action, which set out recommendations for policies and programmes to address nutrition across multiple sectors.
The move came at the opening, in Rome, of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), according to a FAO media release.
The Rome Declaration on Nutrition enshrines the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, and commits governments to preventing malnutrition in all its forms, including hunger, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity.
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said: “We have the knowledge, expertise and resources needed to overcome all forms of malnutrition.”
“Governments must lead the way,” he said. “But the push to improve global nutrition must be a joint effort, involving civil society organisations and the private sector.”
The Rome Declaration and Framework for Action, “are the starting point of our renewed efforts to
improve nutrition for all, but they are not the finishing line. Our responsibility is to transform the commitment into concrete results,” Graziano da Silva said.
“We must now redouble our efforts,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a video address to ICN2 participants. “I look forward to learning of the national commitment that each of you will make. In turn the UN system pledges to do all that it can to provide effective support,” he added.
WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, said: “The world’s food system -with its reliance on industrialized production and globalized markets – produces ample supplies, but creates some problems for public health.
