Fighting COVID-19 in Indonesia through new nutritious food products
Seizing an opportunity to provide the nutritious foods needed to help keep people healthy during a pandemic came naturally to Rani, who is used to seeing potential where others might miss it. Living in Sukabumi, Rani and her mother, Imelda, established in 2012 a small business processing fish and vegetables into healthy snacks.
GAIN Working Paper Series 2 - The role of small and medium-sized enterprises in nutritious food supply chains in Africa
- 17/04/2020
Fighting malnutrition in all its forms is one of the major challenges of the 21st century. Addressing it will require an agricultural transformation. Within Africa, this must include a focus on small and medium-size farms, which provide about 80% of total calories in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as other small actors along the value chain.
Mapping Industrially-Produced Trans-Fatty Acids in Nigeria
- 07/04/2020
The SUN Business Network (SBN) / Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) are conducting a pilot project with the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to support the replacement of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids (iTFA) by local companies in Nigeria and Pakistan.
Supply Chain Analysis for Nutrition tool (SCAN)
- 02/04/2020
Food supply chains are challenged to deliver affordable, safe and nutritious food. GAIN has developed a tool for analysing specific supply chains identify weaknesses or bottlenecks and suggesting potential interventions to improve nutrition along the supply chain, i.e. Supply Chain Analysis for Nutrition (SCAN). Supply chains structure how goods and services move from producers to consumers and are key components of the food system.
Call to intensify support to the 2020 Nutrition for Growth Summit in Japan
Following the postponement of the Olympics to 2021 due to COVID-19, many people have asked whether the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4G) is still scheduled to be held in Tokyo in December 2020. The N4G Summit has a symbolic link to the Games, having been initiated alongside the London Olympics, and is being hosted by Japan with a focus on nutrition and universal health coverage.
GAIN Convening Paper Series 6 - Front-of-pack labelling and visual cues as tools to influence consumer food choices in low- and middle-income countries
- 27/03/2020
Most front-of-pack labelling (FOPL) systems operate in high-income countries (HICs) on packaged foods purchased in a supermarket setting. To explore the role that FOPL and other types of visual cues could play in supporting consumers’ ability to choose nutritious foods in LMICs, GAIN convened three workshops in 2018-2019.
The COVID-19 Crisis and Food Systems: addressing threats, creating opportunities
With the spread of COVID-19 we find ourselves plunged into a global health crisis. By most accounts we are only at the early stages of the pandemic so it is going to reshape economy, society and politics, probably permanently.
Geneva Food Systems Dialogues
Geneva, Global
The Food Systems Dialogues are a global series of facilitated round-table discussions that encourage collective action for transforming food systems. The dialogue aims to bring together diverse actors in food systems to share perspectives, examine opportunities, and understand trade-offs for change.
GAIN Briefing Paper Series 2 - Animal-source foods for human and planetary health
- 28/02/2020
Animal-source foods (ASF) have long been important components of human diets, providing essential macro- and micronutrients. However, ASF production has increasingly been scrutinised as a driver of negative global environmental change, including climate change.