Today’s food system is shaped by business incentives, subsidies, and investment flows that prioritize profit over health.
The result? A food system where nearly half of adults are overweight or obese, non-communicable diseases are rising rapidly, more than two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, and levels of child undernutrition remain unacceptably high—affecting close to a quarter of children under five globally.
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.
This Declaration summarizes months of multistakeholder discussions and the outcomes of ‘The Private Sector and Nutrition: Everyone’s Business’ event on March 26, 2025, during the Paris N4G Summit week. It was initiated by the N4G Private Sector Working Group (PSWG) co-facilitators: ATNi, GAIN, and the Paris Peace Forum.
The PSWG members who contributed to this Declaration are: 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 for 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.
The following international organizations and nonprofits were involved in the Declaration’s forerunner, the CEO Compact on Healthy and Sustainable Diet, and provided inputs for the Paris Declaration:
Achmea Investment Management; Consumers International; Global Child Forum; Food Tank; Hystra; Future Food Movement; the SDG2 Advocacy Hub; Stronger Foundations for Nutrition; The Food Foundation; The Power of Nutrition; The Rockefeller Foundation; Trinity Health; and the World Benchmarking Alliance. Individual contributors included: Sam Kass, food entrepreneur, American political advisor, and former White House chef; Paul Polman, author and former food company CEO; Rajiv Shah, President of The Rockefeller Foundation and former Administrator of USAID; Vinita Bali, Head of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s National Nutrition Committee and former food company CEO; Germana Leyna, Managing Director of the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre; Derek Yach of Global Health Strategies LLC and former food company executive; and Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of GAIN and World Food Prize Laureate.
