In 2025, the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI) continued to play a central role in supporting countries and partners to translate global commitments on large-scale food fortification (LSFF) into action. Through moments like the 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution on food fortification and the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit, FFI worked with governments, UN agencies, civil society, and the private sector to assess progress, highlight successes, identify gaps, and strengthen accountability for delivering on fortification commitments.
In 2023, the World Health Assembly adopted Resolution WHA 76.19, calling on Member States to finance, implement, monitor, and report on large-scale food fortification programs as a proven strategy to prevent micronutrient deficiencies. At the 2025 Nutrition for Growth Summit, 21 countries across Africa and Asia made new or strengthened commitments to food fortification, signaling growing political will to advance LSFF as part of food systems transformation. FFI has provided technical assistance to 13 of these countries.
Several countries made ambitious pledges. Bangladesh committed to adding fortified wheat flour to its national school-feeding program and is working toward mandatory fortification of all wheat flour. Botswana pledged to fortify 90% of staple foods—flour, oil, and salt—by 2025. Ethiopia committed to fortification targets of 79% of edible oil producers, 60% of wheat flour producers, and 97% of edible salt producers by 2030. Nigeria reaffirmed its strong commitment to LSFF, pledging to integrate food fortification into national policy frameworks by 2026 to address undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases.
Other countries—Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Haiti, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, and Zimbabwe—also committed to strengthening fortification policies, coverage, and compliance. If fully implemented, these commitments have the potential to reach hundreds of millions of people with essential nutrients such as iron, folic acid, vitamin A, zinc, and iodine. At the same time, gaps remain in financing, regulatory capacity, data systems, and reporting—underscoring the need for sustained coordination and accountability as progress reports are due in 2026, 2028, and 2030.
