Until recently, action taken to address climate change and malnutrition were two entirely separate conversations, with two eco-systems that did not interact. That is no longer sustainable. We cannot properly address climate change without addressing nutrition and vice versa.
GAIN’s mission is to improve the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially those most vulnerable to malnutrition. As a nutrition organisation, we understand food safety to be a core component of our mission and our ability to achieve healthier diets. Safe food is essential for food security and nutrition, and it affects everything from what consumers eat, to their livelihoods, and their families’ health.
Dr Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), has received his medal and been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for "services to International Nutrition, Food and Agriculture".
Read our tenth story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact communities are seeing on a global scale.
The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Ty Beal, Stella Nordhagen and Gina Kennedy recently attended the International Congress of Nutrition, here they write on the discourse needed to tackle the crisis
At the recent Codex Committee of Food Hygiene meeting that took place in late 2022, the Committee agreed to develop guidelines to improve food safety in traditional markets.
Given these complex motivations, as well as the other constraints that consumers on lower incomes often face, what can firms do to meet them? The BMR project undertook a systematic review of existing research and evidence to find out. It revealed a few core areas for focus: product, marketing, and distribution.
For the first time in the history of COP, food systems were put centre stage in the climate negotiations. Different pavilions and events focused on crucial aspects of the complex food systems and climate interactions.
Read our fourth story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact communities are seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Stella Nordhagen, our Senior Technical Specialist discusses the wide reaching ripple effect climate change will cause on our food systems and what actions need immediate attention.
In a joint article with One Acre Fund earlier this year, we called for greater attention to be paid to smallholder farmers, whose role is essential if we are to fulfil the needs of an ever-growing population – even in the face of climate change, economic turbulence, conflict, and the many other disruptions that lie ahead.
Food system actors and stakeholders need actionable evidence to make decisions that can bring about food system transformation, yet no such mechanism currently exists.
