The Danish Minister of Environment and Food, Esben Lunde Larsen, invited leading, international experts, gastronomy front runners, influencers, and decisions makers to attend the World Food Summit in Copenhagen.
Most of the world of the world’s population now lives in large conurbations. The characteristics of these metropolitan areas are that they are ethnically and socially diverse and a high proportion of food is consumed outside the home or ready prepared.
The EAT Forum gathered 500 of the brightest minds from science, politics, business and civil society in Stockholm to discus progress on transforming the food system to solve the interconnected challenges of climate, sustainable development and health.
GAIN is hosting the event ‘How to Strengthen the Quality of Engagement between Governments and Businesses to Improve the Quality of Diets?’ on Monday, 5 June 2017.
GAIN together with the Government of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Bangladesh, organized the official World Health Assembly 70 side event 'Embodying the future: How to improve the nutrition status of adolescents?'.
GAIN, together with the WHO, co-hosted the World Health Assembly side event titled ‘Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) A Never Before Moment for countries to ACT NOW’, on Thursday, 25 May.
GAIN, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Iodine Global Network (IGN), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), and Effective Altruism Geneva organize the event ‘Towards the Elimination of Iodine Deficiency by 2020’.
This paper reports on case studies supported by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)-UNICEF USI Partnership Project to investigate processed food industry use of adequately iodised salt in contrasting national contexts.
The event brought together diverse organisations and thinkers to share ideas and discuss emerging trends in the international development and humanitarian sectors. Europe’s biggest international development saw over 1000 people attend.