Department of Nutrition and Food Safety key achievements 2021

Overview

Despite the continued challenges faced from COVID-19 throughout the year, 2021 brought many opportunities for Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) to emphasize and progress its work on ensuring universal access to safe and sufficient nutritious food and effective nutrition actions.

During the year, the department was able to refine its vision on food systems delivering safe, healthy and sustainable diets:

• to tackle all forms of malnutrition and diet-related NCDs;
• to improve nutrition, food safety and accelerate progress towards achieving the global nutrition targets;
• to align efforts around the One Health approach;
• to build forward better from COVID-19;
• and to achieve the triple billion targets and health for all.