Paris Declaration

The Paris Declaration on Business & Nutrition 2030 outlines a way forward, realigning business incentives and investment flows through progressive policies and accountability frameworks that together strengthen the nutrition economy.

Priority actions

The urgency to transform food systems is clear, and all actors must play a role. As a global community committed to responsible and impactful business action for nutrition, we call for:

Governments

Must implement and enforce policies that create a level playing field, creating an enabling environment for healthy food production and using progressive policies to support actors across the value chain to support nutrition outcomes.
Must channel public resources to incentivise the production, distribution and marketing of healthier foods that meet the nutritional needs of the population working together with public finance institutions.

Investors and Financial Institutions

Must scale up concessional lending and private funds to drive healthier diet outcomes.
Must drive change by calling for nutrition to be embedded into sustainability reporting and ESG investing practices.

Private Sector (including all food systems actors, from agribusinesses to food and beverage companies, and retailers)

Must take responsibility for reformulating products, improving affordability and accessibility of nutritious options, and shifting marketing strategies away from unhealthy foods—particularly those targeting children and vulnerable populations.

International Organizations and Civil Society

Must align on clear private sector engagement frameworks that define roles, responsibilities, and expected outcomes in multistakeholder processes and platforms.

All stakeholders must hold each other accountable to mobilize commitments to enable business transparency and accountability, and to deliver measurable and meaningful 2030 nutrition results.

A stronger nutrition economy will deliver impact at three levels:

1. Systems level: Markets enable access to nutritious, affordable, and sustainable diets for all;
2. Population level: Reduced prevalence of diet-related diseases and improved health outcomes for all, especially among at-risk populations;
3. Product level: Companies’ food sales are increasingly derived from sustainably produced products that contribute to healthier and sustainable diets.

The Declaration was catalysed by the co-facilitators of the N4G Private Sector Working Group–ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Paris Peace Forum – as well as other members of PSWG: The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF); the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA); the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM); the Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN); Nutrition Japan Public Private Platform (NJPPP); and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Four companies selected by the French Government to serve on the Paris N4G International Advisory Group are in the PSWG as observers: dsm-firmenich, Groupe Nutriset, CAVACS International, and Inyene Agro Processing Factory.