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Youth at the Heart of Food Systems Transformation: Reflections from ACT4FOOD’s Arusha gathering

Youth at the Heart of Food Systems Transformation: Reflections from ACT4FOOD’s Arusha gathering

In April 2025, we took part in the Act4Food Youth Leaders Workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, a truly transformative experience that deepened our already strong convictions of the power and potential of young people to shape the future of our food systems. Organized by ACT4FOOD with support from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the workshop brought together 22 youth leaders from across the globe working under the ACT4FOOD banner, along with GAIN staff and additional food systems youth leaders from Tanzania.
Country Food Systems Dashboard Journey Webinar

Country Food Systems Dashboard Journey Webinar

24 June 2025  , Global

This webinar will introduce the FSD 2024 competition winners, provide them with a platform to share their experiences utilizing the Food Systems Dashboard (FSD) in their work. The session will highlight how participants can leverage the FSD to access and analyse food systems data.
A Year of Safer Food: GAIN’s Top 10 Evidence-Driven Wins

World Food Safety Day 2025

Every year, unsafe food makes 600 million people sick and claims 420,000 lives – including 125,000 children under five (World Health Organization, 2015). These aren’t just numbers; they’re a call to action. At GAIN, we are using science and evidence to change this. For World Food Safety Day, we are spotlighting 10 ways we’ve advanced food safety over the past year.
Incofin and GAIN back three more nutrition-focused enterprises to strengthen food systems in East Africa

Incofin and GAIN back three more nutrition-focused enterprises to strengthen food systems in East Africa

GAIN Student Challenge 2025

GAIN Student Challenge 2025

01 June 2025 - 30 November 2025  , Global

The GAIN Student Challenge returns in November 2025 for its fourth edition! This unique, two-day challenge will bring together 50 students from across the Netherlands to co-develop, alongside peers from a Sub-Saharan African University, sustainable and innovative solutions to real-world food system challenges from one of GAIN’s projects.
Child Stunting And Overweight: Insights And Policy Recommendations From 12 Country Analyses

Child Stunting And Overweight: Insights And Policy Recommendations From 12 Country Analyses

This brief shares an analysis of trends in stunting and overweight among children under five – two of the six Global Nutrition Targets set by the World Health Assembly (WHA) for achievement by 2025 – in 12 focus countries.
5th Global Conference of the One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems Programme

5th Global Conference of the One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems Programme

27 May 2025 - 29 May 2025  , Global

This global gathering will bring together governments, UNFSS national convenors, Rio Convention negotiators, civil society, private sector actors and more, to co-create practical, equitable, and integrated solutions across food, climate, biodiversity, and nutrition policies.
Sowing Success: The Journey of High Iron Beans in Tanzania

Sowing Success: The Journey of High Iron Beans in Tanzania

In Tanzania, 85- 90% of the land is cultivated by smallholder farmers majority of whom face challenges in getting access to quality seeds and assured markets for their produce, thus limiting their capabilities to produce quality produce and generate steady income. Currently, 57% of pregnant women in Tanzania are anemic. Additionally, according to the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2015 (TDHS), 58% of children under the age of 5 years in the country were anemic.
Benin Fact Sheet-WHA Global Nutrition Target

Benin Fact Sheet-WHA Global Nutrition Target

WHA Global Nutrition Stunting Target 2012-2025 Achieve a 40% reduction in the number of children under-5 who are stunted WHA Global Nutrition Overweight Target 2012-2025 Ensure that there is no increase in childhood overweight
Rwanda Fact Sheet-WHA Global Nutrition Target

Rwanda Fact Sheet-WHA Global Nutrition Target

WHA Global Nutrition Stunting Target 2012-2025 Achieve a 40% reduction in the number of children under-5 who are stunted WHA Global Nutrition Overweight Target 2012-2025 Ensure that there is no increase in childhood overweight

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