GAIN Working Paper n°48-Improving Affordability of Nutritious Foods Through Packaging Innovations
- 10/03/2025
Packaging can keep foods safe; help make them appealing, convenient, and long-lasting; and convey key information about them to consumers. At the same time, packaging is an important contributor to food system waste and a major driver of certain foods’ prices in LMICs. As such, it is a sector ripe for creative disruption as part of food system transformation – to ensure safe, nutritious foods can reach the consumers who need them, in affordable forms and with limited negative environmental impact. This paper has considered in detail three packaging innovations that could be used to make nutritious foods more accessible to lower-income consumers: single-serve packaging, reusable packaging, and selling products in bulk without individual packaging.
CASCADE Result Brief- Benin
- 06/03/2025
Project Description CASCADE Benin works to support and strengthen national nutrition policies in 20 communes in six of the country’s 12 departments. Implemented by CARE and GAIN in partnership with nine local organizations, the project aligns with the priorities identified in Benin’s National Food and Nutrition Policy (Politique Nationale de l’Alimentation et de la Nutrition (PNAN).
CASCADE Result Brief- Ethiopia
- 06/03/2025
The CAtalyzing Strengthened policy aCtion for heAlthy Diets and resiliencE (CASCADE) focuses on improving nutrition and food security by promoting healthier diets through multisectoral collaboration and evidencebased food and nutrition-related policies.
CASCADE Result Brief-Uganda
- 06/03/2025
Project Description In Uganda approximately 29% and 53% of children below the age of five years are stunted and anemic, respectively. Additionally, one-third (32%) of women aged 15-49 years are anemic. Access to and consumption of healthy diets remains a challenge for women and children
CASCADE Result Brief- Nigeria
- 06/03/2025
Project Description The Catalyzing Strengthened policy Action for Healthy Diets and resiliencE (CASCADE) project champions multi-sectoral nutrition strategies, scaling up actions and complementing the Government of Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen diets as described in the National Food and Nutrition Policy and Multi-sectoral Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. CASCADE brings Nigeria’s private sector agri-food system actors together with
CASCADE Result Brief- Mozambique
- 06/03/2025
Project Description The Catalyzing Strengthened policy Action for Healthy Diets and resiliencE (CASCADE) project is strengthening Mozambique’s food and nutrition security by fostering collaboration among government, the private sector, and communities. CASCADE frames its activities in Mozambique’s national Food and Nutrition Security Strategy 2024-2030 and the National Strategy of Food Fortification 2023-2027. The project focuses on reinforcing government capacity for policy coordination, fostering collaboration between the public and private sectors to strengthen nutrition-related businesses, and empower community-based organizations to advocate for better nutrition and agricultural services. These efforts are complemented by ensuring that nutritional outcomes are considered within agriculture and health interventions. Crosscutting to its work, CASCADE is supporting both policymakers to make evidence-based decisions and stakeholders working across Mozambique’s food and nutrition security landscape.
CASCADE Result Brief- Kenya
- 06/03/2025
The CAtalyzing Strengthened policy aCtion for heAlthy Diets and resiliencE (CASCADE) project is responding to high malnutrition rates in Kenya and is strengthening implementation of nutrition related policies. The priority policy focus is the Kenya National Nutrition Action Plan which aims to accelerate and scale up efforts towards the elimination of malnutrition in Kenya in line with Kenya’s Vision 20301 and global Sustainable Development Goals.
IWD 2025 CASCADE WEBINAR
, Global
This webinar explores the intersection of women's empowerment and food security, highlighting CASCADE's approaches to improving nutrition and building resilience for women of reproductive age and children.
GAIN Discussion Paper n°17: Guidelines For Food Hygiene in Traditional Markets
- 05/02/2025
Many low-income, food insecure, and malnutrition-vulnerable communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America rely on traditional markets to access nutritious fresh food. However, contaminated fresh foods in markets put the well-being of consumers at risk by compromising their uptake of nutrients, needed for proper growth and health. Unsafe food also contributes to food waste and can raise food prices and lower market vendors’ profits. Improving hygiene in traditional food markets is thus vital to improving nutritional outcomes for consumers in low- and middle-income countries and can positively contribute to market vendors’ livelihoods and sustainable local food systems. In 2022, GAIN initiated a process to champion global Guidelines for Food Hygiene Controls in Traditional Markets for Food through the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), where GAIN is an observer organisation Those Guidelines were adopted in November 2024.