To engage or not to engage with the private sector to advance nutrition?
Any organisation entering into a public private engagement has to be able to publicly justify using public funds. Identifying, preventing, reducing, mitigating and managing conflicts of interest is a key part of that. What are the risks of engaging with private sector?
Nutritious Food Foresight: twelve ways to invest in good food for emerging markets
- 13/05/2019
This report addresses a critical issue of our time – how can we exploit new ideas and new technology to nourish and feed a growing world, and do it sustainably? Working on food systems reform, it is easy to underestimate the speed of change around us. But the reality is that even in the remotest corners of the globe, the drivers of food systems change are making their presence felt with storm-like force.
ESAFON Global Impact Investment Strategy Conference
Geneva, Switzerland
Connecting profit and impact is the biggest challenge for the financial industry as impact investment is set to become mainstream. This conference will develop and detail how to construct impact and alpha under the same model and across portfolios and asset classes from both investors and manager’s perspective.
Using ethnography in implementation research to improve nutrition interventions in populations
- 17/12/2016
‘Implementation research in nutrition’ is an emerging area of study aimed at building evidence‐based knowledge and sound theory to design and implement programs that will effectively deliver nutrition interventions. This paper describes some of the basic features of ethnography and illustrates its applications in components of the implementation process.
2016 ReSAKKS annual conference: achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa
- Accra, Ghana
IFPRI, in partnership with AUC, is convening the 2016 ReSAKSS Annual Conference to promote review and dialogue on the CAADP implementation agenda among policymakers, development partners, researchers, advocacy groups, farmers’ organizations, private sector, and other key stakeholders from within and outside Africa.
Nutrition Africa Investor Forum (NAIF)
- Nairobi, Kenya
The Nutrition Africa Investor Forum, to be held in Nairobi (Kenya) during World Food Day on the 16-17 October 2018, is a platform for bold, fresh, holistic ideas to develop the food value chain and the role that the private sector can play in enhancing nutrition in Africa.
Ending malnutrition by 2030 means running a different race.
Next year’s Global Nutrition Summit in Japan marks the start of a demanding Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) race to end malnutrition by 2030. But if we are to have any chance of crossing the finishing line in time, we have to run a different race to the one we have been running for the past 5 years.
A novel model of pre-competitive public-private collaboration for nutrition research for vulnerable populations
- 01/04/2016
The objective of this study was to propose a pre-competitive, collaborative, multi-stakeholder model for defining, funding and disseminating new research to advance nutrition science.