Supporting Entrepreneurs to Adopt Scalable Techniques to Improve Nutrition for Low-income Consumers
Since most people get a large portion of their food from the private sector, private-sector companies can play a key role in improving nutrition by bringing more safe and nutritious products to market, in forms that are appealing and affordable to consumers. This is ever more important in Nigeria today, where annual food inflation in December 2023 reached 28% - putting healthy diets beyond the reach of many lower-income consumers.
Crisis-proof nutrition through sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture – the private sector as actor
Berlin, Germany
How can we safeguard healthy diets whilst respecting planetary boundaries? The global agri-food systems are facing major challenges: They need to produce more and better food, be more effective and efficient, and produce more sustainably and, first and foremost, in a more climate-resilient manner.
GAIN Discussion Paper Series 11 - Commercialising public agricultural technologies and goods
- 25/07/2022
To inform the development of effective commercialisation strategies, a systematic assessment of country- and crop-specific value chains is essential to identify success factors, barriers, and opportunities.
The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F): Pioneering Nutrition Financing
N3F is an impact-first fund which will use a blended finance structure offering three types of shares to attract investors with different appetites for risk. Notably, the fund will have a catalytic tranche that will act as a first loss component, a powerful method of moderating risk and, thus, of catalysing more risk-averse sources of capital.
Financing the Nutrition Agenda: New Commitments, New Partnerships
Online Webinar, Global
Global malnutrition is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is the leading cause of child death, and contributes to a staggering loss of educational and economic potential for people and for nations. More targeted nutrition financing, from more diverse actors, needs to be delivered now to meet the scale of the challenge we face.
Responsible Business Pledge for Better Nutrition: Business Commits to Tackling Malnutrition
Online Webinar, Global
On 6 December, WBCSD and IFBA - members of the N4G Business Constituency Group (BCG) - and The Food Foundation are hosting a N4G side event focused on sharing private sector commitments intended to address over and under nutrition, which are core to business, and go beyond business-as-usual.
Revolutionizing Nutrition Financing
Online Webinar, Global
This session co-organised by The Power of Nutrition, GAIN, Eleanor Crook Foundation, and Palladium Impact Capital, intends to share solutions and mobilize new thinking around the N4G Cross-Cutting theme of "Securing new investment and driving innovation in nutrition financing".
Introducing the N4G Business Constituency Group: How business is stepping up to tackle malnutrition
Online Webinar, Global
The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Business Constituency Group (BCG) is hosting a side-event on 29 November to introduce the BCG, the journey over the past two years, and its contribution to tackling malnutrition in all forms. The session will feature speakers that will elaborate on the importance of the BCG and the different initiatives that have emerged from the BCG, such as the investors coalition and the workforce nutrition alliance.