Transforming the Future: Supercharging Action at the UN Food Systems Summit

In a time of many seemingly insurmountable challenges, there is something that we can fix. One thing, which if changed could simultaneously accelerate the end of hunger, ensure everyone has access to a healthy diet, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reverse biodiversity loss, and make societies and economies more equitable and resistant to devastating pandemics such as COVID-19.

Why the nutrition and food system Summits of 2021 need each other - and why nutrition needs them both

In 2021 we nutrition champions are blessed with not one, but two summits to advance nutrition outcomes. The UN Food Systems Summit (FSS) will take place in September in New York and the Nutrition for Growth Summit will be held in Tokyo in December.

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth, and save the planet from environmental collapse. The challenges facing us are wide-ranging. The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted.

GAIN Discussion Paper Series 8 - The product reformulation journey so far: an assessment

- 22/10/2020

Deteriorating nutrition and health outcomes have stimulated nutrition programmes and policies to strive to reduce the intake of salt, added sugar, and unhealthy fats towards recommended targets. Alongside promoting the consumption of fresh nutritious foods (e.g., fruits, vegetables, and whole grains), reformulation of processed foods may make an important contribution to improving diets.

Voices of Food Systems: 24-Hour Global Relay Conversation

16 October 2020Online Webinar, Global

The UN Food Systems Summit will launch bold new actions, solutions and strategies to deliver progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems.

9th Annual Giving Women Conference: Women's fight for food rights

26 October 2020- 29 October 2020Online Webinar, Global

The Giving Women Annual Conference is a crucial platform for different actors including UN organisations, civil society, NGOs, business, academia, among others to inform, reflect, and act together to bring dignity and agency to women and girls worldwide.

SDGs & global health through the pandemic lens

21 October 2020Online 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.