Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
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    The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

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      Our programmatic work directly impacts over a billion people worldwide and drives the policy changes we advocate with partners. These programmes aim to transform food systems, ensuring sustainable, healthier diets for everyone especially those most at risk of malnutrition and vulnerability.

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      Driving innovative solutions to improve nutrition and build healthier, more resilient food systems.

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      • A1: Transforming Food Systems To Improve Diet Quality and Resilience For The Most Vulnerable
      • Nourishing Food Pathways
      • CASCADE (CAtalyzing Strengthened policy aCtion for heAlthy Diets and resiliencE)
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    Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Impact of COVID-19 on food systems: a situation report II

Impact of COVID-19 on food systems: a situation report II

- 09/05/2020

These document series summarise some rapid assessments undertaken by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to understand early impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on food systems in a set of low- and middle-income countries where GAIN works (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Nigeria).
Impact of COVID-19 on food systems: a situation report III

Impact of COVID-19 on food systems: a situation report III

- 08/05/2020

These document series summarise some rapid assessments undertaken by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to understand early impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic on food systems in a set of low- and middle-income countries where GAIN works (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Nigeria).
Covid-19 and food prices: what do we know so far?

Covid-19 and food prices: what do we know so far?

Since the Covid-19 pandemic and associated control measures began affecting food systems around the world, many of us who care about nutrition and livelihoods have been thinking anxiously about food prices: would they be affected? If so, how badly, for which foods, and for how long? Food prices are important for several reasons.
Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: the coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis

Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: the coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis

"Biblical". That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally) run stories about the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on food and nutrition. Thank you to the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, for the turn of phrase.
Thoughts on strategic bailout of SMEs in Bangladesh

Thoughts on strategic bailout of SMEs in Bangladesh

In a commendable move to combat the effects of COVID-19, the Government of Bangladesh has announced a bailout package to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by partially covering their interest payments for the current fiscal year until 30th June 2020. But the eventual impact of COVID19 pandemic and its potentially devastating impact on food systems, especially on the SMEs that are the backbone of food supplies.
Fighting COVID-19 in Indonesia through new nutritious food products

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

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

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)

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

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.

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