IWD 2025 CASCADE WEBINAR
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This webinar explores the intersection of women's empowerment and food security, highlighting CASCADE's approaches to improving nutrition and building resilience for women of reproductive age and children.
The Food Systems Countdown Initiative Policy Report 2024
- 14/01/2025
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.
Billions worldwide consume inadequate levels of micronutrients critical to human health
More than half of the global population consumes inadequate levels of several micronutrients essential to health, including calcium, iron, and vitamins C and E, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). It is the first study to provide global estimates of inadequate consumption of 15 micronutrients critical to human health.
ACT4FOOD: A Youth Led Movement to Transform Food Systems
- 13/08/2024
ACT4FOOD was launched as a global youth-led movement to transform food systems, with a pledge to encourage millions of young people to create sustainable food systems and more opportunistically to get involved in the UNFSS and to bring their demands to the decision-making table.
Youth Leadership Initiative Toolkit 3-5
- 12/08/2024
The youth leadership initiative is a platform for young individuals aged 18-25 to actively participate in food systems decision-making. This initiative aims to provide opportunities for young people to have a voice and influence in the decisions that shape food systems, especially national food systems pathways.
Youth Leadership Initiative Toolkit
- 12/08/2024
The youth leadership initiative is a platform for young individuals aged 18-25 to actively participate in food systems decision-making. This initiative aims to provide opportunities for young people to have a voice and influence in the decisions that shape food systems, especially national food systems pathways.
Youth Leadership Initiative Handbook
- 12/08/2024
This facilitator handbook is a key resource in this process, offering structured support and inspiration. The handbook provides you with suggested plans and sessions but is designed to be used flexibly, with each facilitator selecting the most relevant exercises for them and adding their own content and expertise, and on the group, context, time and mode of delivery you have available. Activities in this guide are suitable for groups of 20 - 30 young people and can be delivered both online an in person.
Enhancing Online Review Integrity to Protect Consumers in Indonesia
In a world where digital footprints deeply influence consumer behaviour, the integrity of online reviews is paramount. Recognising the challenges and opportunities presented by user-generated content (UGC), the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS), supported by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), hosted a webinar in February 2024 focused on the implications of UGC for consumer protection in Indonesia. Complementing this discussion, a detailed policy paper, "Understanding the Landscape of Online Reviews in Indonesia from the Perspectives of Platforms and Consumers", has been launched to provide comprehensive analysis and actionable recommendations.
International Youth Day 2024
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International Youth Day is celebrated annually on 12 August to bring youth issues to the attention of the international community and celebrate the potential of youth as partners in today’s global society.