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

12 October 2020- 16 October 2020Online 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 2020Online 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 2020Online 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.  

Five priorities to operationalize the EAT–Lancet Commission report

- 13/08/2020

To operationalize the great food system transformation and ensure its sustainability, five areas of research and action require more attention: economic and structural costs; political economy; diversity of cultural norms; equity and social justice; and governance and decision support tools.

Standing Together for Nutrition (STfN)

New estimates show that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in malnutrition due to disruptions in food, health and social protection systems. Lockdown measures are disrupting the production, transportation, and sale of nutritious, fresh and affordable foods, forcing millions of families to rely on nutrient-poor alternatives.

The key to scaling digital innovations for nutrition

As the wide-ranging effects of COVID-19 combine with serious pre-existing environmental, social, political and economic strains, our food systems find themselves under unprecedented pressure. The silver lining is that this uniquely challenging context has prompted renewed focus on finding scalable solutions to protect lives, livelihoods and our planet.

Reimagining Food Systems

24 June 2020Online Webinar, Global

EAT and The Rockefeller Foundation's virtual convening highlighting critical need and unique opportunity for food system transformation in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The event hosted thousands of colleagues from around the globe for a wide-ranging interactive conversation on the challenges of this moment, the future of our food systems, and how we can drive #FoodSystemsAction.

Fragile food systems, looming hunger and COVID-19: time for a paradigm shift?

16 June 2020GENEVA, Global

Under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community adopted 17 global goals to improve lives by 2030; Goal-2 pledges to end hunger. The world's food systems in theory should be the strategic drivers to reduce hunger, strengthen livelihoods, and improve health.

The role of MSMEs in food systems: now more critical than ever

From empty supermarket shelves to vegetables thrown away uneaten due to shutdowns, COVID-19 has revealed many vulnerabilities in global and local food systems. Not only that, but the pandemic has also reminded us of the essential role nutrition and food security play in boosting immunity and resistance to disease.