Transforming food systems and improving diets
Bonn, Germany, Germany
This joint event by the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) aims to discuss possible steps towards sustainable food system transformation with diverse stakeholders and a particular focus on transitioning to healthier diets by expanding access to safe and nutritious foods for those low-income consumers most vulnerable to malnutrition.
Progress in African Food Systems: What do the Data Say?
- 15/12/2022
In anticipation of the 2022 AGRF, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) have leveraged their existing partnership to produce this report to provide African leaders with cutting-edge data tools that can be employed to describe their nation’s food systems, diagnose the most urgent areas for action, and decide which evidence-based solutions best suit their needs.
Torrential rains in Bangladesh bring renewed urgency to calls for climate adaptation
Climate change is already wreaking havoc with food systems, undermining food security and nutrition for millions of people. Few countries will be affected more seriously than Bangladesh.
International Youth Day - Inclusion means more than just being heard
For International Youth Day 2022 GAIN spoke to Joyce Akpata, Head of Policy and Advocacy at GAIN Nigeria and Azeez Salawu, one of 30 youth leaders leading the global campaign Act4Food Act4Change representing Nigeria.
GAIN Interview Cruncher - How climate change threatens nutrition and food security – and what we can do about it?
In the context of a new GAIN series on "Climate and Nutrition: Why They Need Each Other", we bring together a new episode of GAIN’s interview cruncher to hear from two of the world’s leading scientists on the impact of climate change on nutrition and food security.
Show Me Your Food Systems Budget
In the follow up to the UN Food Systems Summit, national policymakers are building their food system transformation pathways to articulate their priorities and goals and how they will be achieved. This is genuinely exciting, and in our opinion is the most important legacy of the Summit process. But while minds have to be changed, so do means. Priorities have to be reflected in budget spreadsheets as well as in speeches if food system transformation is to happen.
Youth demands on healthy and sustainable diets for COP27
Healthy and sustainable food must be made more accessible, available, and affordable for all by governments and the private sector. Additionally, COP27 must address a comprehensive food systems transformation, including a focus on healthy and sustainable diets.