A/RES/73/132 Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition 8. Recalls that undernutrition hinders individuals, particularly women, children and older persons, from reaching their full potential, and urges Member States to take urgent action to address the unacceptably high levels of child stunting and the growing rates of undernourishment and overweight and obesity, which have a deleterious impact on social and economic development; 9. Encourages the incorporation of nutrition objectives into social protection programmes and the implementation of programmes such as cash tr ansfers, school feeding and targeted food assistance to improve diets through better access to food which conforms to the beliefs, culture, traditions, dietary habits and preferences of individuals, and which is nutritionally adequate; 10. Calls upon Member States to promote healthy diets and lifestyles, including physical activity, through actions and policies, as appropriate, to implement all nutrition-related commitments, including those made by Heads of State and Government at the high-level meetings of the General Assembly on non-communicable diseases, as well as the World Health Assembly, aiming at minimizing the impact of the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases, and to address malnutrition in all its forms by intensifying their efforts and scaling up their activities under the work programme of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025); 11. Also calls upon Member States to develop, implement, monitor and review multisectoral policies and programmes, as well as public health awareness campaigns and nutrition education, and human resources development of nutritionists, and to share best practices, aimed at reducing the growing undernourishment and the rapid increase in overweight and obesity, which is fast becoming a glo bal epidemic; 12. Highlights the need for coherent and consistent policies to tackle overweight and obesity in order to reduce prevalence rates and counter rising levels of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, including through fostering and encouraging healthy behaviour and lifestyles, including healthy dietary choices and regular physical activity, through education, and targeted mass and social media campaigns taking into account that overweight and obesity are key modifiable and preventable risk factors for these diseases; 13. Calls upon Member States to develop actions to promote physical activity in the entire population and for all ages, through the provision of safe public environments and recreational spaces, the promotion of sports, physical education programmes in schools and urban planning which encourages active transport, and also calls upon Member States to implement the World Health Organization global action plan on physical activity 2018–2030: more active people for a healthier world; 14. Invites Member States to work with the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to convene, on a voluntary basis, new action networks on nutrition and to strengthen the existing ones, and to develop, strengthen and implement policies, programmes and plans to address the multiple challenges of all forms of malnutrition, including consideration of commitments that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time -bound commitments, within the framework of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025); 15. Calls upon Member States, in partnership with other relevant stakeholders, including international and regional organizations and academia, to consider scaling up research and knowledge dissemination on the correlations between health, notably its economic and social determinants, and nutrition and food systems to generate evidence and guidance on effective nutrition programmes and policies; 16. Also calls upon Member States to promote and preserve traditional healthy diets, food diversity and healthy eating habits and lifestyles, considering the 8/10 18-21867