Food Safety and Nutrition: How are they Connected, and Why does it Matter?

06 August 2020  Online Webinar, Global

Food safety is an integral part of food and nutrition security. For food to be safe, it must not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared or eaten according to its intended use. Accessing safe food is essential to ensure consumers can access the nutritional benefits of their food.

Improving food safety: an emerging imperative in low-income countries

Scares involving food contamination tend to make headlines when they occur in high-income countries. These rare outbreaks are all the more dramatic because consumers usually take for granted that the food they purchase will be safe: in high-income countries, governments have rigorous food safety standards with staff and budgets to support their enforcement, and many major retailers establish their own standards and procedures for ensuring that the food on their shelves is safe to eat.

The need for transformational dietary shifts – Davos side event

26 January 2018  Davos, Switzerland

On Friday, 26 January 2018,  FReSH – a joint project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and EAT Forum– Royal DSM and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) organized a high-level breakfast on dietary shifts.

Using ethnography in implementation research to improve nutrition interventions in populations

- 17/12/2016

‘Implementation research in nutrition’ is an emerging area of study aimed at building evidence‐based knowledge and sound theory to design and implement programs that will effectively deliver nutrition interventions. This paper describes some of the basic features of ethnography and illustrates its applications in components of the implementation process.

3rd International Conference on Global Food Security

03 December 2017 - 06 December 2017  Cape Town, Global

The 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security will bring together leaders from industry and academia to exchange and share their experiences, present research results, explore collaborations, and to spark new ideas, with the aim of developing new projects and exploiting new technology for food security.

IUNS 21st International Congress of Nutrition

15 October 2017 - 20 October 2017  Buenos Aires, Argentina

The International Congress of Nutrition (IUNS) is taking place in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 15 to 20 October 2017. The Congress’ programme will  focus on every aspect of nutrition issues.

4th African SANKALP meeting

23 February 2017 - 24 February 2017  Nairobi, Kenya

A GAIN-led multi sectoral delegation took part in the 4th SANKALP African Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, in February. The event was attended by more than 900 delegates and over 60 speakers from the areas of investment, innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Borlaug Dialogue - World Food Prize 2016

12 October 2016 - 14 October 2016  Des Moines, United States

The conference will convene a fantastic array of international leaders, policy makers, farmers, executives from agribusiness and non-governmental organizations, and scientific, academic and development experts to address the most critical issues facing global food security.

Food safety and healthy diets: docking, colliding or passing in the night?

Food safety issues have almost no visibility. This is very strange on both counts. As the presentations at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences – GAIN technical workshop in the Vatican made clear, food safety threats are on the rise as food systems modernise but the capacity to control those risks lags behind.