This event will focus on raising awareness of value and role of urban, local and regional governments in making food systems more inclusive, equitable, sustainable and resilient to advance healthy diets for all. Such awareness is most critical and relevant where commitments and actions that underline the transformation of urban food systems also robustly connect with the food systems at "higher levels" (regional, territorial, national and global).
When we launched GAIN’s new Environment Strategy internally in March 2021, it quickly became clear that protecting the planet is a cause that carries huge significance for GAIN staff, for a whole host of different reasons. Some colleagues took inspiration from the natural beauty of the world around them, from the stunning savannahs of Tanzania and rolling highlands of Kenya through to the incredible diversity of India and the lakes and mountains of Geneva.
Hosted by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), Food System Economics Commission (FSEC) and EAT this event will bring together different stakeholders involved in shaping food systems - producers, civil society, research organizations, private sector, and governments – for an open conversation that mobilizes action on nutrition and identifies solutions to today’s nutrition crisis.
On 6 December, WBCSD and IFBA - members of the N4G Business Constituency Group (BCG) - and The Food Foundation are hosting a N4G side event focused on sharing private sector commitments intended to address over and under nutrition, which are core to business, and go beyond business-as-usual.
This session co-organised by The Power of Nutrition, GAIN, Eleanor Crook Foundation, and Palladium Impact Capital, intends to share solutions and mobilize new thinking around the N4G Cross-Cutting theme of "Securing new investment and driving innovation in nutrition financing".
The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Business Constituency Group (BCG) is hosting a side-event on 29 November to introduce the BCG, the journey over the past two years, and its contribution to tackling malnutrition in all forms. The session will feature speakers that will elaborate on the importance of the BCG and the different initiatives that have emerged from the BCG, such as the investors coalition and the workforce nutrition alliance.
This event will present learning tools of organizations supporting SMEs and nutrition, and inspirational case studies by SMEs. There will be three presentations by FAO, ATNI and the IFFS portal – presenting tools that SMEs can use to improve their nutritional knowledge and understand how to take steps forward.
This very timely event will bring together key leaders/expert from government, the nutrition field, Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI), the World Benchmarking Alliance, and the private sector, to launch new data from ATNI on the topic of workforce nutrition and private sector supply chains.
Invited by our partners at WWF, GAIN joined CARE, ICCCAD, Club of Rome & EAT to present the FoodForward consortium at COP26. This comes as part ofour collective commitment to continue working together, as former Action Track Chairs of the United Nations Food Systems Summit, to fix food systems within this decade.
This Series outlines the role of nutrition in adolescent growth, the drivers of adolescent food choice, and evidence on what works in policy and programming. At this global launch, lead authors* and panel members will discuss the key findings and recommendations to achieve better nutrition for this generation. The panel discussion will be followed by Q&A from the audience.
