The Cityfood Market Handbook For Healthy And Resilient Cities (Ed.2)
- 13/11/2025
GAIN’s contributions were made possible through the Nourishing Food Pathways programme, which is jointly funded by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands; European Union; government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada; Irish Aid through the Development Cooperation and Africa Division; and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The findings, ideas, and conclusions contained presented here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of any of GAIN’s funding partners. The handbook is also supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
Four Pathways for Climate – Nutrition integration in Indonesian policies
Why Climate and Nutrition Integration Matters? Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it intersects with systemic multiple aspects of human life. It interlinks the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which aim to end hunger and poverty, preserve the environment, and ensure prosperity. In practice, climate change worsens hunger and hidden hunger as its increasing disasters, declining agricultural harvest and productivity, and threatening crop nutrition.
Farmer Nutrition and Health at the Center of Climate Resilience
Smallholder farmers are the backbone of our food systems. Through small-scale agriculture, they contribute to economic development, provide jobs and livelihoods, and ensure food security for millions. Yet, despite producing 70–80% of the world’s food, many smallholder farmers remain impoverished and food insecure. Each year, agricultural productivity declines as climate change intensifies. Smallholder farmers are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change because they rely heavily on rain-fed agriculture, cultivate marginal lands, and often lack access to the technical and financial support that could help them invest in better agricultural practices. Many governments and organisations are addressing this crisis through climate-smart agriculture training, funding drought-resistant crops, early warning systems, resilient technologies and financial services. However, one crucial aspect remains overlooked: the nutrition and well-being of the farmers themselves. Organisations working closely with smallholder farmers, whether through direct employment or value-chain partnerships, often focus on productivity interventions such as inputs, finance, and market access. However, the nutrition and well-being of the farmers who make these systems thrive are mostly neglected.
World Children’s Day 2025
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World Children’s Day 2025 – 20th Nov My Day, My Rights GAIN strengthens school meals, supports local SMEs, and boosts access to nutrient-rich foods. We empower children and youth as changemakers to build healthier, stronger communities.GAIN’S Strategy For Harnessing Artificial Intelligence In Programmes
GAIN’S Strategy For Harnessing Artificial Intelligence In Programmes
Introduction and Overview
Billions of people worldwide are malnourished. Food systems transformation is essential to address this challenge, yet it is not happening fast enough. The cost of a healthy diet and food insecurity are instead heading in the wrong direction. Without significant intervention, billions of people will remain unable to access healthy diets and continue to be malnourished. GAIN is dedicated to improving this situation and experienced in designing and delivering high-quality programming, but we often run into challenges that limit our impact. For example, identifying promising areas or populations to target for maximum impact; making decisions with incomplete or low-quality data; localising interventions or content to different populations and contexts; understanding complex food supply chains; or verifying the compliance of partners with fortification standards or other guidelines.
About this Strategy
This strategy is intended to demonstrate how the Global Alliance forImproved Nutrition (GAIN) can harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate impact across our programmes. It offers a practical high-level view for leaders and staff across the organisation to understand where and how AI can add value to our mission of ensuring healthy diets for all, especially the most vulnerable. By clarifying opportunities and limitations, the strategy provides a common framework for experimentation, learning, and responsible adoption of AI.
This strategy sets out how we will integrate AI into our programmes to better achieve our mission: ensuring all people, especially the most vulnerable, have access to healthy diets. Our approach focuses on using AI to design more impactful programmes, deliver them more efficiently, and scale them more rapidly. We will integrate general AI best practices across programmes while adopting specific tools and technologies where they add value.
Our objective is to cultivate an organisational culture where AI is not a technological add-on but a strategic enabler of greater nutrition impact. We also see an opportunity to play a leading role in shaping how AI is applied in food and nutrition programming, contributing thought leadership and demonstrating models that others can adopt and adapt.
Billions of people are still affected by #malnutrition, and despite global efforts, progress remains too slow. #AI offers a powerful opportunity to change that.
From identifying high-impact intervention areas, improving #data quality, and understanding complex #supplychain , to localising programmes across diverse contexts—AI is reshaping the way we design and deliver #nutrition solutions.
In this video, Ty Beal highlights how GAIN is strategically applying #artificialintelligence to strengthen programmes, boost efficiency, and accelerate impact for healthier diets worldwide.
Billions of people worldwide are malnourished. Despite our best efforts, the cost of a healthy diet and food insecurity continue heading in the wrong direction. Without significant intervention, this crisis will persist—but we believe artificial intelligence (AI) represents a powerful new tool to help change that trajectory.
At GAIN, we're no strangers to the challenges that limit our impact: identifying the right populations to target, making decisions with incomplete data, localising interventions across diverse contexts, understanding complex supply chains, and verifying compliance with fortification standards. These obstacles slow our progress toward a world where everyone can access healthy diets.
Meanwhile, AI adoption has surged from niche experimentation to mainstream deployment. Today, 78% of companies use AI in at least one business function—up from 55% just a year earlier. The development sector has seen transformative technologies before: mobile money and text messaging revolutionised how we deliver resources and information to remote populations. AI represents the next wave of innovation—one we must harness thoughtfully and strategically.
Authors
Mduduzi Mbuya
Director, Knowledge Leadership
Ty Beal
Senior Technical Specialist
Climate Change Does Not Only Threaten Food Production But Also Crop Nutrition
On October 14, 2025, the 5th series of Bincang Pangan Sehat Lestari brought together experts, policymakers, and practitioners from government agencies and NGOs. The discussions focused on the impact of climate change on food crop nutrition.
Urgent Call for Accelerated Action on Climate-Nutrition Integration – Latest Assessment
For Immediate Release Urgent Call for Accelerated Action on Climate-Nutrition Integration – Latest Assessment Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are leading the way Strongest integration is at the nexus of gender, nutrition and climate change, with 69% ccGAPs showing a clear intention to address climate and nutrition in tandem. Very low levels of integration in the private sector – 79% of the 350 companies assessed had zero integration. London/Geneva, November 07, 2025: The Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) released its latest worldwide assessment of the integration of nutrition and climate action. The report analyses 16 key indicators across 198 countries, revealing that some policy areas have made progress – particularly national nutrition and adaptation plans.
Local and traditional food markets for thriving ‘’smart cities’’
Local and traditional food retail markets are inherent in a city’s social fabric and the urban food environment. Millions of residents connect daily through food at local and traditional markets; and for many low income urban residents, this is their primary source of food. Thousands of tons of fresh, dried and on ice produce flow into these retail and wholesale-retail hybrid markets, bought by consumers directly and/or by food-outlets, restaurants, and last mile vendors.