Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods: Cutting Ingredient Costs by using Lower-cost Alternatives

Companies entering the lower-income consumer market often adapt existing products to meet lower-income consumers’ needs—in particular, redesigning the product to improve affordability. One way to do this is to simply replace more expensive ingredients with cheaper alternatives, or omit certain ingredients altogether. 

GAIN Interview Cruncher - The Urgent Need for Investment in Food Systems Infrastructure

This Interview Cruncher will highlight the crucial role of "food systems infrastructure" in enabling access to healthy and sustainable diets in low- and middle-income countries. It will aim to offer a clear definition of what food systems infrastructure entails and identifies gaps that still need to be addressed. ​​​​​​​

78th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78)

12 September 2023- 29 September 2023New York, Global

The 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78) will open on Tuesday, 12 September 2023. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Monday, 25 September 2023.

My hopes for the UN Food Systems Summit+2 “Stocktaking Moment”

Recently I was on panel chaired by the UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohamed, where I was asked three questions about the UN’s “Stocktaking Moment” two years after the UN Food Systems Summit of 2021 (UNFSS). Here are my answers to the questions.

Africa Climate Week 2023

04 September 2023- 08 September 2023Nairobi, Kenya

The Africa Climate Week 2023 will bring together government leaders, businesses, civil society organizations, and communities from across the continent to share their experiences, insights, and solutions.

Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF)

05 September 2023- 08 September 2023Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

The Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF) will host its 13th annual summit in a hybrid event from  Sep 5th -8th 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Hosted under the leadership of H.E Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of the United Republic of Tanzania; this year’s summit is anchored around building Africa’s Food Systems and Food Sovereignty with the youth and women at the center.

Dietquality.org: launch of website providing new data and tools to enable diet quality monitoring globally

Gallup, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), today launched the Global Diet Quality Project’s website, dietquality.org, releasing data from 56 countries alongside ready to use tools for diet data collection and analysis.

Partnerships for systemic change - Practical approaches in food systems

22 June 2023Online, Global

On 22 June 2023 (Thursday, 9.00 to 10.30 AM EST/2.00 to 3.30 PM BST) Nutrition Connect and IFSS Portal, and Glocolearning, will host a 90-minute virtual workshop to highlight the central role of partnerships in ushering systemic change, by exemplifying practical approaches in food systems.