Investment opportunities in nutrition foods values chains in Kenya and Tanzania
- 01/01/2018
This project is part of a wider initiative at GAIN on Innovative Finance and aims at assessing and sizing the financial needs of enterprises working along food value chains that could produce nutritious foods in Kenya and Tanzania with a particular focus on SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) and food systems after the farm gate.
Sustainable Retail Summit
- Berlin, Germany
Tailored for retailers, manufacturers and service providers, this event targets high-level representatives, including CEOs and senior executives. Attendees will include senior executives for whom sustainability and health & wellness are key issues.
Unlocking funding for affordable nutrition
Singapore, Indonesia
Join panellists from DSM, GAIN, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Capital 4 Development in this discussion on how the private sector can contribute to reducing malnutrition and why they should do it.
Global Nutrition: an opportunity for U.S. foreign policy and business
Washington DC, United States
The CSIS Global Food Security Project invites you to join a discussion with a world-renowned expert and advocate on the opportunity for U.S. foreign policy and business to improve global nutrition.
Building market-led approaches to food and nutrition security in Kenya
Every quarter, GAIN holds some Community of Practice workshops (CoP), which bring together representatives from private sector, government, and academia. These workshops are a key component of the GAIN Marketplace for Nutritious Foods programme in Kenya.
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.