Business Models for Reaching Lower-income Consumers
- 11/10/2023
The GAIN Business Model Research (BMR) Project, funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to identify promising business models that can do just this.
Improving Nigeria food system to reduce malnutrition
- 04/10/2023
Nigeria’s plan for the transformation of its food systems, presented after the landmark 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit, is proof of its strong political dedication to implementing impactful changes in the country’s food systems.
GAIN Code of Conduct
- 25/09/2023
The Code of Conduct is a solemn and good faith commitment each of us makes to uphold these values at GAIN, at all times, no matter the relationship, and whether or not our actions are visible to others.
Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods - Cross-Subsidisation and Segmenting by Quality
In a cross-subsidisation model, one product is sold with a larger margin, with the excess profit used to subsidise another product sold at a smaller margin (e.g., by covering all or most company fixed costs with the higher-margin channel). BMR’s systematic review found several examples of companies using this strategy with the same product sold in different forms or settings to different groups of consumers.
GAIN Working Paper Series 36 - Greening Nutrition - Integrating environmental screening into GAIN programmes
- 19/09/2023
GAIN’s Environment Screening Tool represents a key step towards systematically incorporating environmental considerations into GAIN’s programmes. It is designed to enable a rapid self-assessment, which identifies environment-related risk factors, prompts mitigation actions, and encourages teams to explore opportunities for environment-nutrition win-wins.
Africa Can Feed the World
Delegates numbering more than 5,000 and representing over 90 countries converged to explore strategies to harness Africa's vast potential in expediting the development of regional, national and sub national food systems that would not only benefit the continent but also the entire world.
Africa Climate Week: An Inflection Point for Sustainable Development, Food Systems, and Nutrition
[We, the African Heads of State and Government, commit to] redoubling our efforts to boost agricultural yields through sustainable agricultural practices, to enhance food security while minimizing negative environmental impacts. But perhaps there's more cause for optimism here than first meets the eye.
Benin - GAIN opens an office in the country to strengthen the fight against malnutrition
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss foundation launched by the United Nations, which has been working to reduce human suffering caused by malnutrition since 2002, will sign a memorandum of understanding with Benin's Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday 14 September 2023 to implement its activities. GAIN is thus inaugurating its official presence in the country.