Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.
This World Food Day, GAIN is showing how innovation already puts healthier diets within reach. We know what nourishes, we make food systems deliver it, and we back the people who build it bringing together evidence, data, technology, policy and business innovation to help more people access nutritious, safe food.
World Food Day 2026
This World Food Day, we are celebrating Innovation that nourishes — highlighting the importance of innovation in making nutritious foods and healthy diets more accessible to everyone.
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Innovation starts with knowing what people need. It becomes meaningful when food systems can deliver it, and it lasts when we back the people who can take it further.
01 Evidence and data
Better evidence helps us understand what people eat, where nutrition gaps exist and where action can make the greatest difference.
02 Technology and policy
Innovation can strengthen the systems, policies and delivery mechanisms that help nutritious food reach people consistently and at scale.
03 Businesses and youth
Entrepreneurs, businesses and young people turn ideas into products, services and solutions that can improve diets and reach more communities.
Across all three
GAIN’s AI strategy runs through the campaign, helping strengthen how solutions are designed, delivered and scaled.
You cannot improve diets without understanding what people need, what they eat and where the gaps are. Better evidence and better data can help turn that understanding into better decisions.
Lead innovation
A global analysis ranks foods according to the bioavailable micronutrients most commonly lacking in low- and middle-income countries — helping identify foods that can make an important contribution to filling nutrient gaps.
See the whole system
Bringing together data from around 40 sources and more than 300 indicators, the Food Systems Dashboard helps users understand food systems from farm to fork and identify where action is needed.
300+ food systems indicators in one platform Explore the Dashboard
Understand what people eat
The Diet Quality Questionnaire provides a simple way to generate comparable information on what people eat, helping countries and researchers better understand diet quality and where improvements are needed.
140 countries for which the questionnaire has been adapted Explore Diet Quality Data
Bite the Talk · Episode 26
Dr Jessica Fanzo and Dr Ty Beal, hosted by Mark Gachagua, explain why the Dashboard was built, who uses it and what comes next, including AI-powered queries and climate projections.
Knowing what works is only part of the challenge. Innovation can also strengthen the systems, policies and delivery mechanisms that help nutritious food reach people consistently and at scale.
DFQT+ is a digital food fortification quality and traceability system that provides real-time, traceable information on fortification quality — helping strengthen visibility from premix to factory to market.
From the blog
You take it home expecting it to contribute to the nutrition of the people who will eat it.
Nutrition and social protection
Supporting innovation
Nutrition Futures uses co-innovation to explore how social protection systems can better support nutrition. It brings together governments, communities and innovators to identify practical solutions and test new approaches.
Ideas become meaningful when people can turn them into products, services and businesses that improve diets. Supporting entrepreneurs and young innovators can help promising solutions reach more people and grow.
Making nutrition investable
N3F combines blended finance with technical assistance to help agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises grow businesses that contribute to better nutrition.
Mozambique Fresher · Faster · Further
For fish seller Ancha Monequete, NutriBaik is making everyday business more efficient. A bicycle and equipment designed to keep fish fresh allow her to travel further, reduce losses and protect the income that supports her family.
Bite the Talk · Episode 33
A story of food, conflict and hope — and another perspective on entrepreneurship, innovation and creating change from where you are.
Across GAIN, colleagues and partners are getting into the World Food Day spirit. From team moments to plenty of smiles, these snapshots bring together some of the people celebrating Innovation that nourishes across our work.
Innovation that nourishes does not belong to one organisation, programme or country. It grows when people bring new ideas, improve what already exists and take action.
This World Food Day, share one commitment you will make to help healthier diets reach more people.
Add your voice by clicking the orange + icon on the right, feel free to upload photos and videos alongside your commitment.
My commitment to innovation for healthier diets is…
Every blog from this campaign in one place, from fortification quality in Nigeria to young entrepreneurs in Tanzania.
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Consumer trust depends on how food is produced and checked. See how DFQT+ is helping make verification part of everyday production.
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A bicycle and equipment designed to keep fish fresh help Ancha travel further, reduce losses and protect her family’s income.
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Solar drying tents keep fish clean and cut drying time from three days to as little as one and a half.
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Through FoodFiti, women vegetable vendors are gaining stronger supply links and business skills at the last mile.
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Technical training helped a young entrepreneur improve products like tomato paste and chilli sauce.
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