Impact breakfast: increasing commercial investments for nutrition in frontier markets
Geneva, Switzerland
On Wednesday 9 October, GAIN together with Hivos and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will organise the "Impact breakfast: increasing commercial investments for nutrition in frontier markets".
GAIN launches new website and brand guidelines
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) launched today a new version of its main website and refreshed brand guidelines. The changes are designed to better communicate its work on transforming food systems to deliver better nutrition for all, especially the most vulnerable to malnutrition.
Beacons for exploring uncharted nutrition territory
Last week, GAIN co-led a five-day Executive Short Course entitled "Together for Nutrition: Public-Private engagement to improve the consumption of nutritious food". The course, the first of its kind, was made available by the six funders who together support GAIN’s Making Markets Work for Nutritious Foods programme.
Introduction to the Conference on Building Business Contributions for the 2020 Global Nutrition Summit in Japan
Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of GAIN, gave an introductory speech at the Conference on Building Business Contributions for the 2020 Global Nutrition Summit in Japan.
Attracting more commercial investment into nutritious food value chains
- 01/01/2018
This discussion paper is based on a review of relevant literature and interviews with investors and experts at the intersection of business and nutrition. The objectives of this paper are to assess what is needed to unlock greater commercial investment into nutritious food value chains, from nutrition to agribusiness to SME finance and blended finance.
A report on understanding human motivation among Bangladeshi adolescents
- 25/06/2018
Bangladeshi adolescents are in the midst of several modes of expansion outside their context such as from closely enmeshed family networks to broader collectives. This report covers an assessment on understanding human motivations among Bangladeshi adolescents.
Building business contribution for the 2020 Global Nutrition Summit
- The Hague, The Netherlands
The 25-26 June Conference in The Hague will help shape private sector engagement in the Japan 2020 Summit. This event is a key first step for consulting with and including the perspective of business into the Japan 2020 Summit.
From small to nutritious: can retailers lead a healthy food revolution?
The retail sector is where consumers come face to face with food. Retailers have significant influence over whether the food that consumers face is nutritious, safe, available, affordable or attractive. I have heard it said many times that the chief buyers for large food retailers are more important in influencing food choices than Ministries of Agriculture or Food.
Investing in nutritious, sustainable foods in emerging markets
Stockholm, Sweden
This workshop at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2019 marks an important milestone in the roadmap towards reframing the dialogue around nutrition and raising the profile of nutrition as an investment theme.