Healthy diets are unaffordable to over 2 billion people worldwide and food access remains a challenge for many. The food environment illustrates the interaction of consumers with different food retail outlets to acquire and consume food.
Animal-source foods—meat, fish, eggs, and dairy—play an important role globally in ensuring healthy and sustainable diets, according to a review published today in the Journal of Nutrition. In particular, many people suffering from undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia would benefit from increased consumption of nutrient dense animal-source foods.
The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organisation, appoint the Director-General, supervise financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget.
How can we safeguard healthy diets whilst respecting planetary boundaries? The global agri-food systems are facing major challenges: They need to produce more and better food, be more effective and efficient, and produce more sustainably and, first and foremost, in a more climate-resilient manner.
Given these complex motivations, as well as the other constraints that consumers on lower incomes often face, what can firms do to meet them? The BMR project undertook a systematic review of existing research and evidence to find out. It revealed a few core areas for focus: product, marketing, and distribution.
We are delighted to announce that in the first New Year’s Honours List of King Charles III, Dr Lawrence Haddad has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for "services to International Nutrition, Food and Agriculture".
In advance of the 2022 AGRF Summit, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and AGRA produced a report to provide African leaders with cutting-edge data tools to do just this. This briefing paper summarises the main results of that effort.
Diet quality in India is characterized by overall inadequate dietary diversity, despite high rates of consumption of vegetables, animal-source foods (mostly dairy), and whole grains. Action is needed to reduce reliance on starchy staples, to increase consumption of fruits, nuts and seeds in particular, and to moderate intakes of sweet foods and drinks, and packaged salty snacks.
On the ninth of May, 2002 GAIN was founded with the aim of tackling human suffering caused by malnutrition. Over the past 20 years, GAIN has been working with governments, businesses, and civil society to transform for food systems so that they can deliver more nutritional food for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
For the first time in the history of COP, food systems were put centre stage in the climate negotiations. Different pavilions and events focused on crucial aspects of the complex food systems and climate interactions.
