GAIN-IPAN Certification Course in Laboratory Analysis of Food Micronutrients (LAoFM)

25 October 2021- 25 November 2021Nigeria

The GAIN-IPAN LAoFM certification training course is structured into three (3) progressive competency levels (Foundational, Intermediate, and Advanced). This Course is tailored made for industry professionals, private candidates, and technical staff of corporate organizations.

Mighty Nutrients: The Power of Vitamins and Minerals to Unlock Human Potential

01 December 2021Online Webinar, Global

Vitamins and minerals (micronutrients) have the power to unlock human potential around the world. But a staggering 3 billion people globally, perhaps more, cannot afford a healthy diet that delivers the micronutrients people need to survive and live healthy and productive lives.

Unleashing the Full Power of Large-Scale Food Fortification: A Renewed Commitment

18 November 2021Online Webinar, Global

Ensuring that all people can consume diets rich in vitamins and minerals is foundational to building a healthy food system and to achieving global goals. Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a powerful and established food systems intervention with a proven track record of virtually eliminating debilitating vitamin and mineral deficiencies as a public health concern.

Collective Approach for Adoption of Nutrient Enriched Crops in the Food System

The potential for biofortification to curb hidden hunger can be realised when there is a strong support system for businesses to trade. Key building blocks of the support system include consumers, development partners, the government, and financial institutions.

Food fortification – the devil in the detail

when fortification’s done right, payoffs are large in terms of improved nutritional status, cognition, and productivity – which is why it’s so widely implemented. And wherever it’s implemented, we need to know if it’s working. Ideally, we’d measure impact on reduced nutrient deficiencies or related health outcomes, but this can be difficult for reasons of cost or because of the time taken for fortification programmes to yield measurable impacts. So what do we do instead?

Staple Food Fortification - a commitment guide for the UNFSS and Tokyo N4G Summit

- 24/03/2021

The UN Food Systems Summit, UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit will take place towards the end of 2021. All three events are key milestones on the road to recovery from the devastating impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on food security and nutrition. The summits are also key moments to mobilize support for and prioritization of staple food fortification as a no-regrets, gamechanging intervention to fight disease and poverty among the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Verifying laboratory performance and quality control in the context of micronutrient testing of fortified food - A guidance document

- 25/02/2021

This Guidance Document describes the various elements of quality management (QM) and quality control (QC) required in a laboratory setting. Many qualitative elements are required to analyse the various chemical parameters in food samples, particularly for micronutrient testing and for testing food safety and food quality substances.

Unleashing the Full Power of Large-Scale Food Fortification: A Renewed Commitment

18 November 2021Online Webinar, Global

Nutrition for Growth (N4G) is a global pledging moment to drive greater action toward ending malnutrition and helping to ensure everyone, everywhere can reach their full potential. This webinar will aim to catalyse government, donor, private sector commitments toward the Summit. 

Tackling malnutrition through the food system - the role of industrial fortification and biofortification

29 September 2021Online Webinar, Global

2021 represents a pivotal year to invigorate interest, awareness and investment in Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) and biofortification. UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Rice fortification - a key opportunity to reach more people with fortified food

02 September 2021Online Webinar, Global

With the devastating social and economic impacts of COVID-19, it is more important than ever to protect the nutrition, health, and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable. We know that many of the two billion people who suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, or "hidden hunger", consume rice as their primary staple food.