Ebye'ndiisa Report
- 06/10/2026
The Ebye’ndiisa Expo 2026 successfully promoted vegetables and nutrition in Uganda through stakeholder engagement, exhibitor recruitment, and media strategies, attracting 171 exhibitors and over 1,400 attendees. It improved nutrition awareness, market linkages, and consumer attitudes, validated as a demand-driven platform for healthy diets, with plans to institutionalize as a recurring event supported by government and partners.
Pioneering a food systems strategy for Benin
- 30/09/2026
Cross-sectoral approaches are needed for food systems transformation—but how can countries move from systems thinking and visioning to actual coordinated action? This case study examines Benin’s development of a costed National Strategy for Accelerating Food Systems Transformation
I-CAN Landscaping Analysis on Climate and Nutrition Policies and Stakeholders in Mozambique
- 14/09/2026
Mozambique faces interconnected climate and nutrition challenges. Recurrent droughts, floods, cyclones, and extreme rainfall disrupt agricultural production, livelihoods, markets, water and sanitation systems, and health services, with important consequences for food security and nutrition. These hazards are particularly significant because many households depend on climate sensitive agriculture for food and income. This assessment examines how Mozambique’s national policies and institutional landscape frame the connection between climate and nutrition .
GAIN Working Paper n°74: Improving Diet Quality in West Africa- The Role of Intra-regional Food Trade
- 20/08/2026
Food trade plays a significant role in shaping food security and nutrition worldwide, with both positive and negative implications for diet quality. This is particularly relevant in West Africa, where persistent challenges such as low dietary diversity and limited affordability of healthy diets coexist with rapidly changing food consumption patterns. Intra-regional food trade is especially important in this context, yet its scale and nutritional significance remain poorly understood due to the large share of trade that goes unrecorded in official statistics.
Jack Beans Thrive During El Niño Conditions
Jack bean offers Indonesia a practical, climate-resilient crop option at a time when El Niño, drought and rising climate variability are putting farmers, food security and agricultural systems under increasing pressure. Drawing on experiences from drought-prone regions across Indonesia, the blog highlights how jack bean continues to grow, flower and produce when crops such as maize, chili and soybean struggle or fail.
The Priority List: which foods have the greatest potential to improve nutrition?
A new tool helps decision makers do just that. The Priority List uses a holistic food rating system called the Nutritional Value Score to identify the most nutritious foods for programmes and policies. In low- and middle-income countries where GAIN and partners work, every bite counts towards tackling persistent undernutrition and rising rates of diet-related chronic disease.
GAIN Working Paper n°71: Crowdsourcing in Food Systems Research: Lessons from Indonesia and Kenya
- 07/08/2026
Crowdsourcing, i.e., leveraging digital platforms to mobilise distributed contributors for data collection, harnessing the collective power of large, distributed networks of people to accomplish such tasks through open calls has gained traction in recent years, yet practical guidance for implementation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains limited. This paper examines lessons from three food systems research case studies conducted by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition in Indonesia and Kenya between 2019-2024, analysing what worked, what didn't, and why.
Strengthening Local Enterprise to Improve Access to Nutritious Food
In Tehene, a remote community near Gurué in central Mozambique, high costs and difficult market access mean families rarely eat animal-source foods such as frozen fish or chicken. To help close this gap, entrepreneur Inocêncio Calado founded Alto Licungo, a cold chain distribution business supported by GAIN’s Improving the Consumption of Animal Source Foods project. Inspired by his late father, Inocêncio is helping transport perishable foods safely across long distances so rural communities can access nutritious foods more regularly.
International Youth Day 2026
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Young people are not only the leaders of tomorrow. They are already creating solutions, influencing decisions and driving positive change in food systems today.