Reducing post-harvest loss of tomatoes in Ethiopia: E-PLAN
- 13/10/2022
In 2018, GAIN expanded its Postharvest Loss Alliance for Nutrition (PLAN) program to Ethiopia with a focus on reducing loss of tomatoes. Working with local stakeholders, PLAN Ethiopia was designed with two key components.
Rebuilding Fresh Food Markets in Mozambique
- 12/10/2022
To make sure Beira’s low-income population can continuously access affordable safe nutritious fresh foods and economic opportunities in traditional urban food markets, GAIN with funding from the government of the Netherlands supported the city of Beira by upgrading three fresh food markets.
Story 3: Russia’s War in Ukraine: Implications for the Indian Food System
Read our third story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact communities are seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Tarun Vij, our India Country Director discusses the wide reaching ripple effect India is experiencing and what actions need immediate attention.
Story 2: Strengthening Nutrition Resilience and Food Security on the African Continent
Read our second story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact we're seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Mduduzi Mbuya and Saul Morris speak about the common threads connecting the threat to African food systems.
Global Report 2022 - Measuring what the world eats
- 19/10/2022
Gallup, Harvard University, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition teamed up to overcome this challenge by initiating the Global Diet Quality Project. Through this project we have created a new approach that enables countries to track diet quality year to year, seasonally, or even more frequently.
Unhealthy diets are jeopardising our health
Gallup, Harvard University, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) have today published a new report on diet quality entitled Measuring What the World Eats.It is the first report from the Global Diet Quality Project, with data based on the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ), a standard questionnaire which takes just five minutes to complete.
Brief - Measuring what the world eats
- 19/10/2022
The Global Diet Quality Project offers a new approach that enables countries to track diet quality. The project’s Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) allows users to investigate both diet adequacy and diet components that protect against or increase risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
GAIN and CARE sign MoU to improve access to affordable healthy diets
CARE USA and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding, establishing a global partnership to improve access to affordable healthy diets.
The Global Diet Quality Project: Measuring What the World Eats
Online Webinar, United States
In this event, the Global Diet Quality Project unveils the first data collected across 40+ countries and shows what the data reveal about healthy and unhealthy patterns. To date we have released country-adapted diet quality questionnaires (DQQ) for 105 countries, which are a global public good for scaling up valid and feasible diet quality measurement.