World Food Day: Refresh the Food System.
Amsterdam, Online, Global
On Friday 15 October 2021, Netherlands Food Partnership is hosting a unique and uplifting hybrid gathering for food professionals to celebrate World Food Day.
From Commitments to Action: The importance of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines for a Coalition for Action on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems
Online, Global
The CFS Voluntary Guidelines on food systems and nutrition are the only multilateral negotiated global policy instrument on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. The UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), on the other hand, is the first global summit to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems and has helped spur national level food systems pathways.
Time to be bold: N4G must be about enlarging the nutrition pot, not simply polishing it
I remember well the first Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2013 in London. I wrote the framing paper for that Summit: why should we invest in improving nutrition status? Answer: because 45% of under 3 mortality is linked to malnutrition.
EatSafe Innovation Inspiration Tool
- 20/09/2021
Designed to inspire EatSafe team members’ creativity and imagination prior to and during the EatSafe Intervention Sprint, this tool described the features, benefits, and enabling infrastructure of over 100 consumer-first food system innovations using Human Centered Design.
Agri-food systems transformation: new, ambitious framework proposed to monitor progress
Transforming agri-food systems is the high road to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and a rigorous, science-based monitoring framework is needed to steer the process and keep all stakeholders accountable, a consortium of experts say in a new "viewpoint" published in the Food Policy journal.
Driving global youth action for climate adaptation in food systems
Milan, Italy, Global
The event is intended for youth from all around the globe to participate and engage in efforts and movements around food security under a changing climate. The event also aims to create awareness of the Pledge initiative - a youth-led promise galvanising action to defeat hunger, improve health and heal the planet.
USAID and Eleanor Crook Foundation announce support for GAIN -Incofin Nutritious Foods Financing Facility
USAID, through Feed the Future, and the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF) have announced their intention to support the establishment of the Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), a first of its kind investment fund that will bolster these critical SMEs and promote well-nourished communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to 2030 global goals and beyond
Online Webinar, Global
This is a side event to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (taking place on September 23, 2021). This session will feature some of the co-authors of a forthcoming call for a rigorous, science-based monitoring framework to track food systems and their transformation.
GAIN commitments to transform food systems
Submission to the UN Food Systems Summit (UN FSS) Commitment Registry – Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UN FSS), taking place on September 23, 2021, marks a key milestone on the journey towards food systems transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.