Given the pressing challenges posed by raising urbanization across the globe, GAIN, the SUN Business Network (SBN) and the International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) decided to convene an open conversation on urban nutrition and on improving food systems in developing countries.
GAIN, in partnership with the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, hosted an event titled ‘Protecting our planet’s health: growing cities, poor nutrition, what can be done?’ on Thursday, 10 November in Geneva.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is pleased to be able to offer a new, first-of-its-kind executive short course, "Together for nutrition", which focuses on public-private engagement to improve the consumption of nutritious food.
This report highlights the successes of the global effort to eliminate iodine deficiency disorders as a public health problem. The report was commissioned as part of UNICEF-GAIN Partnership Project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2008 to 2015, to improve iodine nutrition through salt iodisation.