World Food Forum is youth led movement network to transform our agricultural food systems. To inspire wide-spread discussion and action around this urgent topic, the World Food Forum (WFF) – a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems – is rallying around the 2022 theme: "Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet."
Achieving optimal health and nutrition requires people to be both well-nourished and free from foodborne hazards. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has long recognized the importance of integrating food safety to achieve global nutrition and food security goals.
Healthy and sustainable food must be made more accessible, available, and affordable for all by governments and the private sector. Additionally, COP27 must address a comprehensive food systems transformation, including a focus on healthy and sustainable diets.
G7 Development Minister’s communique and the Chair’s Summary – Session 5: "Response to Multiple Crises on the African Continent – focusing on Food Security". The Zero Hunger Coalition and Private Sector Pledge have received strong support from the Communiqué 'Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in times of multiple crises' issued on 19 May 2022 by the G7 Development Ministers.
Today GAIN presents its statement on food safety to the 75th World Health Assembly taking place in Geneva. GAIN aims to make nutritious safe foods more desirable, available, and affordable for all. The new WHO global strategy for food safety launched today is an important milestone in linking the objectives of food safety, nutrition, and smart development, for if food isn’t safe, it isn’t food.
Timely, actionable data is essential to the success of national large scale food fortification (LSFF) programmes. Most low and middle income (LMIC) countries currently rely on national surveys to inform their LSFF programmes. These national surveys are expensive and infrequent, making it difficult to assess quality and impact.
David Morgan, Senior Technical Specialist for Quality and Safety at GAIN, spoke on Intertek's Assurance in Action Podcast about the GAIN Premix Facility, what it is and how it works.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates there will be up to 13.1 million more chronically undernourished people in the next year due to the war, while the World Food Programme predicts that between 33-47 million people will face acute food insecurity.
Creating the enabling environment to adopt new tools and approaches to improve food safety in traditional markets can help decrease the burden of foodborne disease. This webinar is one of several Health Talks presented by the World Health Organization in celebration of World Food Safety Day 2022.
