The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F): Pioneering Nutrition Financing
N3F is an impact-first fund which will use a blended finance structure offering three types of shares to attract investors with different appetites for risk. Notably, the fund will have a catalytic tranche that will act as a first loss component, a powerful method of moderating risk and, thus, of catalysing more risk-averse sources of capital.
EatSafe Learnings from Phase I Research in Nigeria
The EatSafe program conducted a range of formative research activities to understand the local context in Northwestern Nigeria. Learnings from these activities were then used to develop market-based interventions to increase consumer demand for improved food safety.
A tribute to the late Dr. Ferew Lemma
Over the holiday period the nutrition community - and the world - lost a powerful champion: Dr. Ferew Lemma. This is our abiding memory of Ferew: calm in a crisis, but passionate about improving people’s lives; still when listening, but restless to find solutions; quiet in meetings, but forceful when it comes to implementing decisions.
Safe, nutritious food is everyone’s business
2021 has marked a turning point for food safety in the global public discourse. The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted vulnerabilities in our food system, including the importance of food safety and its role in nutrition and health. We are starting to see the pressing need to establish capacity to support domestic food safety in low- and middle-income countries.
Advancing equitable access to nutrition for all food systems workers
Online Webinar, Global
Join us in discussing how decent work opportunities, social protection mechanisms and workforce nutrition programmes can help achieve global nutrition security.
N4G Side Event: Leveraging the Workplace to Bring Improved Nutrition to Millions of Employees
Online Webinar, Global
It bring together key leaders/expert in the fields of nutrition and labour, with high-level government representatives, leaders from the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI), and key private sector leaders to take a deep dive into the recently released (Sept 2021) WBA’s Food and Agriculture Benchmarks.
Financing for nutrition: Leveraging the pivotal role of Public Development Banks
Online Webinar, Global
This event will focus on the pivotal role of PDBs in food and nutrition. The PDB coalition proposed by IFAD will also be presented. This initiative seeks to improve PDBs’ capacity to contribute to the transformation of sustainable food systems that can provide good and adequate nutrition to everyone.
Fruits and Vegetables - Key components of healthy diet
Fruits and vegetables are recommended across all dietary guidelines. Despite the nutrition credentials of vegetables, they remain relatively scarce and expensive in many low-income settings, including across many of the countries where GAIN’s main offices are based.
Meeting Consumers Where They Are – Innovative Approaches to Food Safety
Online Webinar, Global
This webinar will inform participants how consumer behavior information can be used to inform food safety intervention design in traditional markets in low- and middle-income countries, as well as the variety of approaches currently in use that are consumer- and market-actor focused, behavioral in nature, measurable over time, and informed by community norms, local priorities, and cultural practices.