Transforming food systems for better nutrition, health, and prosperity

6 December 2021. The UNFSS and Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit (Dec 7-8, 2021) have been working collaboratively (see joint statement) to advance solutions across systems with a mutual recognition that malnutrition in all its forms is one of the biggest challenges we face to ensuring optimal health, resilience, and prosperity for all. To further highlight nutrition relevant moments, a “Nutrition for Growth Year of Action” was launched in December 2020.

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On the eve of the N4G Summit the UNFSS Secretariat hosted a virtual event in support of the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit. This event underscored the linkage between nutrition and food systems, and heightened global awareness, momentum, and actions toward delivering on the promise of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Speakers included 

• UNFSS Special Envoy Dr. Agnes Kalibata
• Mr. HARA Keiichi, Deputy Director-General / Deputy Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan
• Moderator: Dr. Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) 
• Ms. Carolina Turriago Borrero, Alliances and Advocacy Lead, Fundación Éxito of Colombia • Mr. Tom Arnold, Ireland’s Special Envoy on Food Systems 
• Dr. Ferew Lemma, Senior Advisor, Office of the Minister, Federal Ministry of Health, Ethiopia
• Ms. Sophie Healy-Thow, Co-chair of Youth Liaison Group, UNFSS 
• Ms. Khadija Mohamed-Churchill, Founder, Kwanza Tukule Foods 
• Ms. Reema Nanavaty, Agriculture Director, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) 
• Dr.Tania E Martinez Cruz, Indigenous researcher