What is the role of animal-source foods in healthy and sustainable diets?

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.

76th World Health Assembly (#WHA76)

21 May 2023- 30 May 2023Geneva, Switzerland

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.

Crisis-proof nutrition through sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture – the private sector as actor

19 January 2023Berlin, Germany

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.

Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods - Get the Product Right, Market it Well, and Get it Out There

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. 

GAIN's ED awarded the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

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".

GAIN Briefing Paper Series 9 - Africa Food Systems

- 21/12/2022

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.

India - Diet Quality Profile

- 20/12/2022

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.

GAIN Interview Cruncher - GAIN@20 The Journey to Better Nutrition for All

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.

As the dust settles from COP27, here’s how we can move forward actions for nutrition and the environment

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.

GAIN Statement @ COP27

COP27 was not the first time nutrition and climate have been mentioned in the same breath at a COP. That was in Paris in 2015 and no one really listened. Timing is everything and in Sharm El Sheik seven years later the timing was right.