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?
The Nutrition Africa Investor Forum, to be held in Nairobi (Kenya) during World Food Day on the 16-17 October 2018, is a platform for bold, fresh, holistic ideas to develop the food value chain and the role that the private sector can play in enhancing nutrition in Africa.
Next year’s Global Nutrition Summit in Japan marks the start of a demanding Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) race to end malnutrition by 2030. But if we are to have any chance of crossing the finishing line in time, we have to run a different race to the one we have been running for the past 5 years.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is pleased to be able to offer a new, first-of-its-kind executive short course, "Together for nutrition", which focuses on public-private engagement to improve the consumption of nutritious food.
Business is both part of the problem and the solution to the current food systems challenges. It is critical that we all learn more about this dual impact and that we are able to track how it evolves. By increasing the effectiveness of tracking we will be better positioned to ask and assist businesses to be agents for positive change.
My delight at being told that I was one of 2018’s World Food Prize Laureates was matched only by, well, sheer surprise. It became clear that the contribution being recognised was the ability to be effective in multiple roles in order to help elevate nutrition to the “top table” of development. In other words, to help convince powerful decision makers that good nutrition is fundamental to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).