United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) extended to 2030

On 24 March 2025, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution to extend United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (the Nutrition Decade), originally from 2016–2025, to 2030. This extension aims to maintain the political momentum to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 at global, regional and national levels and to align its objectives with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The resolution was adopted during the 62nd UNGA plenary meeting and received large support, with 158 Member States voting in favour and 139 Member States co-sponsoring. The resolution reiterates the Nutrition Decade’s vision to build a world where all countries, organizations and others working on nutrition coordinate actions and strengthen collaboration so that all people, at all times and at all stages of life, have access to affordable, diversified, safe and healthy diets. The Decade aims to accelerate progress towards the global nutrition and diet-related noncommunicable disease targets and prioritize nutrition at the highest political level. 

The resolution also calls on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to continue to lead and monitor the implementation of the Decade and to further strengthen efforts in advancing the global nutrition agenda.

“The world is off track to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 and all countries need to scale up implementation of national commitments and increase investments for nutrition. Therefore, the decision by the General Assembly to extend the Decade for Action on Nutrition is an important step and would be well supported by the alignment of the 6 World Health Assembly global nutrition targets to 2030. WHO remains committed to fully deliver its mandate in this crucial endeavour,” said Werner Obermeyer, Director of the WHO Office at the United Nations.

Ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition is among the most urgent and pervasive development challenges. Most countries face multiple burdens of malnutrition and diet-related NCDs such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer and obesity. The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition is a commitment by United Nations’ Member States to undertake sustained and coherent implementation of policies, programmes and increased investments to eliminate malnutrition in all its forms and in all countries, leaving no one behind. 

The Decade of Action on Nutrition supports coordinated country action across six areas:

• sustainable, resilient food systems for healthy diets
• aligned health systems providing universal coverage of essential nutrition actions
• social protection and nutrition education
• trade and investment for better nutrition
• safe, supportive environments across all ages
• strengthened governance and accountability for nutrition.

Extending the Nutrition Decade will allow FAO and WHO to continue reporting on nutrition action and inform the General Assembly on progress through biennial reports for the next five years.

The adoption of this resolution coincides with the Nutrition for Growth Summit, taking place 27–28 March 2025 in Paris where the global nutrition community will be discussing how to align policies and resources to close the funding gap for nutrition. 

Read the full text of the resolution. 

For more information on the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition, including past resolutions and resources, please visit: https://www.un.org/nutrition/.