SDGs & global health through the pandemic lens

21 October 2020  Online Webinar, Global

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. This pandemic has underlined the faults that existed in the past systems, which requires developing multi-sectoral solutions to show the road for a stronger future.

What’s affordable, and what’s healthy, in an affordable healthy diet?

A few months ago, a new analysis came out with a shocking number: about 1.6 billion people could not afford a healthy, sustainable diet. A few weeks ago, the publication of the 2020 "State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World" (SOFI) report further rocked the food and nutrition community with an even more startling number: an estimated 3 billion people could not afford a healthy diet.

Reducing food loss and waste during COVID-19

29 September 2020 - 29 September 2020  Online Webinar, Global

The Jakarta Post webinar series will discuss issues of food loss and waste. Coinciding with the commemoration of the International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste the webinar will feature authoritative speakers, including policymakers, representatives of nonprofit foundations and independent observers.

GAIN @ UNGA75

22 September 2020 - 26 September 2020  Online Webinar, Global

At the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) from September 15, high-level government, UN and civil society representatives gather virtually and in New York to assess progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, just as COVID19, and other converging threats to the planet and people call for urgent attention.

GAIN proud to support UN 2021 Food Systems Summit, chairing the Action Track to ensure safe nutritious food for all

With a year to go, the Summit will offer a platform like no other to bring together key players from the worlds of government, science, business, policy, and academia, as well as farmers, indigenous people, youth organisations, consumer groups, environmental activists, and other key stakeholders.

GAIN amid leading experts to drive five priority areas for UN Food Systems Summit

Today the United Nations Special Envoy, Agnes Kalibata, announced experts across the fields of food, agriculture, health and climate change who have committed to advance solutions to make food systems more resilient and inclusive through the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021.

Borlaug Dialogue: Building Resilience Today for Improved Global Food Systems Tomorrow

12 October 2020 - 16 October 2020  Online Webinar, Global

The Borlaug Dialogue is a Food Security Annual International Symposium organized by the World Food Prize Foundation. It brings diverse group of participants from international experts, policy leaders, business executives to farmers and end users in order to address current challenges on food security and nutrition.

Google Maps for Food Systems: A new dashboard to inform better food and nutrition policy

13 October 2020  Online Webinar, Global

Transforming systems that are not mapped is very difficult.  Without an ability to map food systems we are likely to be stumbling around in the dark. And once mapped, we need to know which components of a country’s food system need attention, and we need to know how to fix them.

AGRF Virtual Summit

08 September 2020 - 11 September 2020  Online Webinar, Global

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Annual Summit of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which brings together over thousands of delegates from governments, the civil society, the private sector, research community and development partners will be held virtually from 8-11 September 2020 and will be co-hosted by the Government of Rwanda and the AGRF Partners Group.

My first 100 days @GAIN and beyond

My first exposure to the effects of malnutrition occurred in 1999 in central war-torn Angola. Due to the armed conflict, hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) were fleeing their homes and hunkering down in various camps huddled around the outskirts of the main town.