Under the RE-GAIN climate adaptation initiative led by AGRA, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) held an official launch for its work on transforming wholegrain value chains to reduce food loss and improve dietary quality, on 29 September 2026.
A nourished individual is indispensable for the prosperity of a country. Bangladesh has made significant progress toward tackling malnutrition, eradicating poverty, and reducing social vulnerability, yet major nutrition challenges persist. In 2023-2025, 8.2% of the population remained undernourished (SOFI 2026), nearly 38.6% could not afford a healthy diet (SOFI 2026), and 30.5% experienced moderate or severe food insecurity in 2021-2023 (SOFI 2023) amid climate shocks and economic pressures. Strengthening nutrition-sensitive social protection is therefore essential.
Food loss and waste (FLW) undermines the availability and affordability of nutritious foods, and accounts for 8–10% of global GHG emissions.1 Every tonne of food saved avoids emissions linked to production, transportation, and storage, as well as methane released during decomposition. FLW is about more than just increasing food system efficiency. When nutritious foods are lost or wasted before they reach consumers, the resources used to grow, process, transport, and sell that food are lost along with it. FLW also means fewer safe, affordable, and healthy food options available to communities, while farmers, fishers, traders, and other food system actors lose income.
For years, sand and sudden rain could reduce the value of Isabel Alfândega’s dried fish. A solar drying tent now keeps her fish off the ground, shortens the drying process and helps her secure a better price.
Jack bean offers Indonesia a practical, climate-resilient crop option at a time when El Niño, drought and rising climate variability are putting farmers, food security and agricultural systems under increasing pressure. Drawing on experiences from drought-prone regions across Indonesia, the blog highlights how jack bean continues to grow, flower and produce when crops such as maize, chili and soybean struggle or fail.
A new tool helps decision makers do just that. The Priority List uses a holistic food rating system called the Nutritional Value Score to identify the most nutritious foods for programmes and policies.
In low- and middle-income countries where GAIN and partners work, every bite counts towards tackling persistent undernutrition and rising rates of diet-related chronic disease.
In Tehene, a remote community near Gurué in central Mozambique, high costs and difficult market access mean families rarely eat animal-source foods such as frozen fish or chicken. To help close this gap, entrepreneur Inocêncio Calado founded Alto Licungo, a cold chain distribution business supported by GAIN’s Improving the Consumption of Animal Source Foods project. Inspired by his late father, Inocêncio is helping transport perishable foods safely across long distances so rural communities can access nutritious foods more regularly.
Moma, Mozambique – When Islova Alberto Aly decided to venture into fish drying, her primary aim was to generate an income to support her children's education. Little did she know that her traditional fish drying methods—spreading fish on the ground by the Mucoroge beach, exposed to sand, dust, sun, and bacteria—would harm her community.
Chimoio, Mozambique – A white Hino truck rattles under its own weight on the bumpy road, while its tires throwing particles of dust from the asphalt in the air from the district of Cantandica, Manica province, central Mozambique.
Pemba, Mozambique – From the window of his house in Quissanga district, Cabo Delgado, Andrade Vitorino watched helplessly as his poultry farm collapsed due to strong winds and rains caused by cyclone Kenneth in 2019.
But since the 2017, it is the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado province that affected his business and various economic activities, as well as the functioning of food systems in the province.
“One day, a neighbour shouted that we were under attack, and we all ran away, leaving everything behind. A few days later I heard that everything had been burned down. Houses and everything, including my poultry,” said Andrade.
Seated on a plastic chair and turning his back to his house made of clay, in one of Pemba's neighbourhoods, where he is starting new life he says, “I didn't have time to take anything. Just my documents. My house, my aviary and my dreams were left behind.”
