Webinar – The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on global food security

10 December 2020Online Webinar, Global

COVID-19 is disrupting humanitarian aid and development cooperation projects globally. Furthermore, the pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on food supply chains, undermining access to food for many.

The Making Markets Work for Nutritious Foods Programme: It’s time to fix the information failures in our food systems

Ensuring markets provide enough nutritious and safe food to those living in poverty in low income countries is an urgent priority. Many in such markets across the world lack access to affordable foods that are safe and rich in the nutrients needed to sustain life and livelihoods.

76th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76)

14 September 2021- 30 September 2021New York City, United States

The 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) will open on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 21 September 2021.

The Food Systems Dashboard is a new tool to inform better food policy

- 13/05/2020

The Food Systems Dashboard brings together extant data from public and private sources to help decision makers understand their food systems, identify their levers of change and decide which ones need to be pulled. The Global Burden of Disease study showed that unhealthy diets contribute to 11 million deaths per year.

Viewpoint: A view on the key research issues that the CGIAR should lead on 2020–2030

- 20/02/2020

How should the CGIAR's research programme be focused to make it as impactful as possible given the changes being faced by the world's population over the next 10 years? This viewpoint suggests a firm emphasis on research needed to unlock the potential of food systems to deliver improved nutrition, environmental sustainability and stronger livelihoods, with a focus on the tradeoffs and synergies therein.

Nutrition For Growth - Year of Action

14 December 2020Online Webinar, Global

The Governments of Canada and Bangladesh, in partnership with the Government of Japan and with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, cordially invite you to the launch of a Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Year of Action. The event will showcase new policy and financing commitments to nutrition from a range of stakeholders and will formally launch a Nutrition For Growth Year of Action, that includes milestone events leading up to the Summit in Tokyo in late December 2021. 

Demand creation at GAIN

- 04/12/2020

This document describes the work GAIN has been doing on demand creation, mainly under the Making Markets Work programme. The purpose is to inform interested readers about the approach and progress made in the last three and a half years.

GAIN Working Paper Series 14 - Selling to the world's poorest - the potential role of markets in increasing access to nutritious foods

- 03/12/2020

Poor people in the global South eat diets with few nutrient-dense foods, putting children and adults alike at risk of malnutrition. Strategies to improve their diets will look different depending on whether current access to such foods is mostly via home production or via purchase and on whether poor families actually want to consume more of specific nutrient-dense food groups.

Effective interventions to increase food and nutrition security in response to Covid-19

08 December 2020Online Webinar, Global

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our food systems in a negative way. In fact, food security and nutrition have become among the most affected areas because of this pandemic, given the lockdown and restrictions measures that countries have adopted to contain the virus.