Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021
MHLW Official Side Event Information
Programs
All sessions are available on YouTube.
7th-December 2021
For better nutrition in the elderly: experiences from the community-based approaches in Japan
Future in the balance: addressing childhood obesity today to protect the health of future generations (Joint session by WPRO, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, and MHLW)
8th-December 2021
Nutrition policy in Japan: Japan’s experiences and global collaboration for better nutrition
Creating “tipping point” for transformation food environment to achieve sodium reduction (Joint session by WHO and MHLW)
Report
The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 Summary
- On December 7 and 8, 2021, the Government of Japan hold the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 as the third Nutrition for Growth summit following one in London 2013 and one in Rio de Janeiro 2016, in a hybrid format that combines on-site participation of domestic participants and on-line participants from overseas.
- A wide range of stakeholders shared the current global situation where every country, regardless of high-income or resource-limited countries, experiences the double burden of malnutrition, the co-existence of undernutrition that hinders growth and overnutrition that causes non-communicable diseases, and discussed the next steps the global society have to commit for nutritional improvement with considering worsened global situation on nutrition due to the COVID-19.
- The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare organized five official side-events (see above) to share the insight based on the 100 year experience of nutrition policy in the country.
The Tokyo Compact on Global Nutrition for Growth
- At this Summit, the Tokyo Compact on Global Nutrition for Growth was issued as an outcome document with Commitments by stakeholders. The Government of Japan delivered commitment to contribute to ending malnutrition in the world.