GAIN Interview Cruncher: Building our markets forward better

GAIN Interview Cruncher: Building our markets forward better

Online Webinar, Global

Keeping the food systems working during the pandemic is essential through our support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that produce, transport, process, and market most food for low-income consumers globally. The more so as people increasingly rely on traditional forms of retail. In fact over 90% of fruit and vegetable produced in low-income countries are sold by traditional small retailers.
GAIN Interview Cruncher: Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle

GAIN Interview Cruncher: Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle

Online Webinar, Global

On Thursday 18th February don’t miss the "GAIN Interview Cruncher- Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle" at 2pm CET. The webinar will host the experts to discuss the Keeping Food Markets Working initiative, what’s at stake and why this is so relevant in building our food systems forward better.
Food systems actions: charting the pathway through complexity

Food systems actions: charting the pathway through complexity

Food systems are notoriously complex. Many actors are involved, from subsistence farmers through to multinational corporations with more economic power than many small nations, and from informal ambulant vendors through supranational bureaucracies.
Business accountability for better nutrition

Business accountability for better nutrition

- 01/01/2021

With the Nutrition for Growth and United Nations Food Systems Summits scheduled in 2021, ambitious new multi-stakeholder commitments and actions are expected for better access to safe nutritious food. In 2019 the world was already off-track to achieve SDG2 - Zero Hunger - and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to exacerbate this gap requiring stronger financing and actions for nutrition.
Keeping food flowing within African food systems by busting policy myths

Keeping food flowing within African food systems by busting policy myths

I love academic papers that use evidence to try and shift stubborn policy perspectives, especially when those policy perspectives seem to be holding back development and hunger reduction. So, it is no surprise that I like the recent paper by Liverpool-Tasie et al. (2020) on persistent myths that are held about African food supply chains.
UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 - Public Forum

UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 - Public Forum

Online Webinar, Global

Action Track 1 (AT1) strives to identify game-changing ideas to transform food systems and achieve the goal of ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all. This second Public Forum will focus on our current thinking of some our game-changing ideas relevant to AT1 and present a platform to engage with, connect, and listen to your reflections on where we stand. 
Project DISRUPT: Healthy diets on a healthy planet

Project DISRUPT: Healthy diets on a healthy planet

- 10/01/2021

Our current food system is in dire need of change. To enable resilient, affordable, safe, and nutritious diets for the current and growing global population while restoring and safeguarding our environment, we need to think and act out of the box. GAIN, the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, and EAT joined forces to conduct a three-stage Delphi study, to identify and investigate game-changing innovations for improving diets and restoring environments by 2030.