Campaigns

GAIN Celebrates International Women’s Day 2025

On 8 March 2025, join GAIN in celebrating International Women’s Day under the powerful theme:

"For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment."
This year, we’re calling for bold actions that unlock equal rights, power, and opportunities for every woman and girl—no matter where they are. It’s a reminder that gender equality isn’t just a goal—it’s a right.

The Food Systems Countdown Initiative Policy Report 2024

Food systems are a foundation of human and planetary well-being and central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet they also contribute to ill health, inequity, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions. These challenges demand urgent food systems transformation. Such a transformation requires understanding the status of food systems across their diverse functions.

GAIN@COP29

GAIN returns to the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP) committed to maintaining momentum and building upon the strong foundations established over the last few years.

World Food Day

This year's World Food Day theme, "Right to Food for a Better Life and Future", underscores the urgent need to address the global hunger crisis.

Despite producing enough food to feed the world, an alarming 733 million people still face hunger due to a complex interplay of factors, including climate shocks, conflicts, and inequality caused by the steep rise in food prices.

United Nations Biodiversity Conference - COP16

At COP 16, governments will be tasked with reviewing the state of implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Parties to the Convention are expected to show the alignment of their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) with the Framework. COP 16 will further develop the monitoring framework and advance resource mobilisation for the Global Biodiversity Framework. Among other tasks, COP 16 is also due to finalise and operationalise the multilateral mechanism on the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of digital sequence information on genetic resources.

Africa Food Systems Forum

Africa’s Food Systems Forum, formerly AGRF, is the world’s premier forum for African agriculture and food systems, bringing together stakeholders to take practical actions and share lessons that will move African food systems forward. Africa Food Systems Forum is designed to energise political will and advance the policies, programs, and investments required to achieve an inclusive and sustainable food systems transformation.

Youth Leadership Initiative

The Youth Leadership Initiative aims to enable young people aged 18-25 to play a pivotal role in shaping food systems, through leadership and collective action with a special focus on national and global decision-making.

World Breastfeeding Week: How Emo Demos are raising awareness about breastfeeding in Mozambique

Through an innovative intervention called Emo Demos, about 12,680 women learned about the importance of breastfeeding. Meet Madalena, one of these women who learned to care for herself and her children during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit

Built on our efforts at Tokyo N4G, GAIN will try to harness the capacity of the private sector to transform food systems and tackle malnutrition. Businesses large and small are the main drivers behind the action, investment, and financial flows that supply our diets everywhere. By providing an open platform for meaningful dialogue, we aim at achieving impactful and measurable results with consumers, government, investors, and markets.

World MSME Day 2024

World Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Day is celebrated on June 27th every year. Founded by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness of the tremendous contributions of enterprises to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).