Welcome message from Dr Francesco Branca – Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety

Food systems and health go beyond the food we eat. Threaded throughout the food system are multiple pathways that impact our health and the health of animals and our planet: occupational hazards, environmental contamination and degradation, unsafe and adulterated foods, zoonotic pathogens and antimicrobial resistance; and unhealthy diets and food security.

WHO is committed to supporting governments and their stakeholders to investigate the intersections between health and food systems, and to take food systems actions that impact health in a positive way, nationally, regionally, and globally.  This will be necessary to realize WHO’s Triple Billion Target in this Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025), as well as, to build forward better from the COVID-19 pandemic and contribute to the achievement of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.  

We are all members of the global food system, and we all have a responsibility to act. By coming together to transform food systems for better health, we can contribute to building a world in which no one is hungry, no one is unhealthy from a preventable cause, no one faces poverty, and no one is left behind.

Check this page again soon for more updates on relevant events, publications, advocacy tools, and ways to get involved

If you have any questions, ideas or need more information, please feel free to email: foodsystems@who.int