Regional dialogue towards a New SDG 2 Indicator: Minimum Dietary Diversity

FAO, in its commitment to eradicating hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition in all its forms, promotes universal access to healthy diets. According to the Joint Delegation of FAO and WHO, a healthy diet is based on four essential principles: adequacy, balance, moderation, and diversity. 

Recognizing its relevance, and as part of efforts to strengthen global monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2): Zero Hunger, FAO and UNICEF have jointly assumed stewardship of a new official SDG indicator: Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD). 

With the purpose of presenting this new indicator recently adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission as part of the 2025 Comprehensive Review of the SDG indicator framework, the Better Nutrition team of the FAO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean invites you to the Regional Dialogue towards a New SDG 2 Indicator: Minimum Dietary Diversity to discuss its relevance for monitoring food security and nutrition policies and reflect on the challenges and opportunities posed by its implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly in measuring the quality of diets for the most vulnerable groups. 

The event will foster technical dialogue among key stakeholders involved in the generation, analysis, and use of food consumption data, with a view to strengthening national capacities to monitor healthy diets and moving toward more inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food systems.