Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods - Cross-Subsidisation and Segmenting by Quality

In a cross-subsidisation model, one product is sold with a larger margin, with the excess profit used to subsidise another product sold at a smaller margin (e.g., by covering all or most company fixed costs with the higher-margin channel). BMR’s systematic review found several examples of companies using this strategy with the same product sold in different forms or settings to different groups of consumers.

GAIN Working Paper Series 36 - Greening Nutrition - Integrating environmental screening into GAIN programmes

- 19/09/2023

GAIN’s Environment Screening Tool represents a key step towards systematically incorporating environmental considerations into GAIN’s programmes. It is designed to enable a rapid self-assessment, which identifies environment-related risk factors, prompts mitigation actions, and encourages teams to explore opportunities for environment-nutrition win-wins.

Africa Climate Week: An Inflection Point for Sustainable Development, Food Systems, and Nutrition

[We, the African Heads of State and Government, commit to] redoubling our efforts to boost agricultural yields through sustainable agricultural practices, to enhance food security while minimizing negative environmental impacts.  But perhaps there's more cause for optimism here than first meets the eye.

The United States Announces $6Million to Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F)

In partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Incofin Investment Management, the USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman and Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security Dina Esposito announced the $6 million investment, in the Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F).

Unmasking Hidden Hunger - How School Feeding Programmes Change Lives

Imagine a classroom filled with eager young minds, ready to embrace the world's opportunities. Now, picture these same children and adolescents, their potential stifled not by lack of ambition, but by an invisible adversary – hidden hunger. 

GAIN Discussion Paper Series 15 - Food System Pathways: Improving the Effectiveness of Support to Governments

- 25/08/2023

The 2021 UN Food System Summit led to strategic pathways for food system transformation in countries, supported by an Ecosystem of Support (EoS). This analysis evaluates transformation progress, suggests principles for effective EoS functioning, and emphasizes flexibility while respecting national leadership and promoting collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency and decision-making in advancing food system goals.

Supporting African Governments to Advance Food Systems Transformation

04 September 2023  Dar es Salaam, Global

Explore Africa's progress in food systems transformation as experts discuss policy integration, action prioritisation, and inclusive engagement. Discover how women, youth, and the private sector contribute to decision-making and investment across Africa. Development partners' insights will also spotlight ways to enhance collective actions for a robust food systems agenda in the continent.

New Efforts to Diagnose – and Improve – Policy Coherence for Food Systems

Some countries encourage increased consumption of nutrient-rich foods to reduce the burden of diet-related diseases such as diabetes as one of their health goals—but they also subsidise foods that can contribute to those diseases, such as sugar, edible oil, or refined grains. 

Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods - Cutting Costs by using Waste Products and Less-desired Parts

Food loss and waste is a major problem worldwide: it is estimated that 14% of all food produced globally is lost between harvest and retail, while 17% is wasted. For the most nutrient-dense foods, which tend to be highly perishable, levels are even higher, exceeding 20% for the category of fruits and vegetables.

GAIN Briefing Paper Series 10 - Business Models for reaching lower income consumers with nutritious foods

- 07/08/2023

Lower-income populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often face challenges accessing affordable, desirable, safe, and nutritious food, contributing to poor diet quality and malnutrition.