This report addresses a critical issue of our time – how can we exploit new ideas and new technology to nourish and feed a growing world, and do it sustainably? Working on food systems reform, it is easy to underestimate the speed of change around us. But the reality is that even in the remotest corners of the globe, the drivers of food systems change are making their presence felt with storm-like force.
The garment industry has contributed significantly to the economic growth of Bangladesh over the past decades accounting for 82% of the country’s USD 31.2 billion export industry. The garment sector employs directly approximately 4.4 million people, and indirectly 20 million people.
This conference will bring together Ministers and representatives of national governments, senior policy makers and other groups from all regions of the world to engage in an urgent reflection on food safety challenges.
During this event, distinguished decision makers, practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders will share evidence and lessons learned from around the world on food system transformation for reducing hunger and malnutrition.
‘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.
The Social Good Summit Geneva brings together high level decisions makers – entrepreneurs, investors, governments, large companies and international organizations – to foster collaboration for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The UN Global Compact Leaders Summit brings together an international community of leaders from business, civil society, academia, Government and the United Nations to accelerate business action and partnerships to achieve the SDGs and Paris Climate Agreement.
GAIN is hosting the event ‘How to Strengthen the Quality of Engagement between Governments and Businesses to Improve the Quality of Diets?’ on Monday, 5 June 2017.
In partnership with the Government of the Republic of South Africa, the World Economic Forum on Africa was held in Durban, South Africa, on 3-5 May 2017. The meeting convened regional and global leaders from business, government, and civil society to agree priorities that will help Africa achieve inclusive growth.
How do non-business and business actors engage more productively within the mixed economy food system to form healthy rather than toxic alliances in the fight against malnutrition? In other words, how can we encourage the “virtuous emulsification” of oil and water?
