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

11 June 2019Stockholm, 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. 

Nutritious Food Foresight: twelve ways to invest in good food for emerging markets

- 13/05/2019

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.

Improving the nutritional status and work productivity of female garment workers in Bangladesh: a pilot study

- 14/11/2017

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.

The future of food safety – Transforming knowledge into action for people, economies and the environment

12 February 2019- 13 February 2019Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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.

Accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition

28 November 2018- 30 November 2018Bangkok, Thailand

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.

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.

Social Good Summit Geneva

13 October 2017Geneva, Switzerland

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).

UN Global Compact Leaders Summit

21 September 2017New York, United States

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.

How to strengthen the quality of engagement between governments and businesses to improve the quality of diets?

05 June 2017London, United Kingdom

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.