GAIN amid leading experts to drive five priority areas for UN Food Systems Summit
Today the United Nations Special Envoy, Agnes Kalibata, announced experts across the fields of food, agriculture, health and climate change who have committed to advance solutions to make food systems more resilient and inclusive through the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021.
Borlaug Dialogue: Building Resilience Today for Improved Global Food Systems Tomorrow
- Online Webinar, Global
The Borlaug Dialogue is a Food Security Annual International Symposium organized by the World Food Prize Foundation. It brings diverse group of participants from international experts, policy leaders, business executives to farmers and end users in order to address current challenges on food security and nutrition.
Google Maps for Food Systems: A new dashboard to inform better food and nutrition policy
Online Webinar, Global
Transforming systems that are not mapped is very difficult. Without an ability to map food systems we are likely to be stumbling around in the dark. And once mapped, we need to know which components of a country’s food system need attention, and we need to know how to fix them.
Global Review of Consumer and Vendor Perspectives on Food Safety
To understand how both food vendors and consumers conceptualize food safety, and how knowledge and beliefs are reflected in practices and social interactions, EatSafe conducted scoping reviews on consumer (Part 1) and vendor (Part 2) perceptions of food safety.
Literature Review Linking Food Safety and Nutrition
This report provides an overview of the pathways that link food safety and nutrition, and their shared impacts on health. It highlights research gaps and opportunities for intervention in support of Feed the Future and EatSafe programming.
Development and humanitarian civil society Call to Action
The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that humanity is placing too much pressure on the natural world and has laid bare profound inequalities in societies. Deforestation, wildlife trade and conversion of land for highly intensive and unsustainable agriculture and livestock production, are destroying ecosystems and increasing interactions between wildlife and humans, opening the door to infectious disease outbreaks.
AGRF Virtual Summit
- Online Webinar, Global
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tenth Annual Summit of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), which brings together over thousands of delegates from governments, the civil society, the private sector, research community and development partners will be held virtually from 8-11 September 2020 and will be co-hosted by the Government of Rwanda and the AGRF Partners Group.
Providing healthier meals for a thriving workforce: A practical guide for businesses
One in three people globally suffers from at least one type of malnutrition. Malnutrition brings significant losses in productivity and potential, and poses challenges to employers in all settings. 58% of the world’s population will spend one third of their time at work during their adult life, so employers have an opportunity to help tackle malnutrition.