The third report of the Secretary-General has been released!

12 April 2022 | NEW YORK – This recently published biennial report informs the United Nations (UN) General Assembly about the implementation of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition during the period 2020-2021.

Advancing the global nutrition agenda

The 2020-2021 reporting period is marked by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that have threatened the food security, nutrition, health, and livelihoods of many people around the world. The report seeks to remind us that addressing the challenges imposed by not only the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the persisting underlying drivers of all forms of malnutrition, requires a continuous effort of commitment, financial investments and coordinated action from each country and stakeholder, in order to eradicate all forms of malnutrition, everywhere, leaving no one behind.

This third biennial report also highlights two other critical developments that have helped keep nutrition high on the global political agenda:

• Two global high-level events that were held in 2021: the UN Food Systems Summit and the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit, united by the ambitious goal to address all forms of malnutrition through multiple pathways.
• The endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition by the Committee on World Food Security in February 2021, aiming to support countries and others in their efforts to ensure food systems deliver safe and healthy diets.

The report covers key developments at international, regional, and country levels across the six action areas of the Nutrition Decade’s Work Programme during the reporting period, and sets the way forward for the second half of the Nutrition Decade towards eliminating all forms of malnutrition.