With the 5F crisis – lack of food, feed, fuel, fertilizer and finance pushing millions more people in the world’s most populous region into hunger and poverty, four specialized agencies of the United Nations are calling for urgent coordinated efforts to address the impacts this crisis will have on economies, households and people, particularly women and children in the Asia-Pacific region.
At the recent Codex Committee of Food Hygiene meeting that took place in late 2022, the Committee agreed to develop guidelines to improve food safety in traditional markets.
Animal-source foods—meat, fish, eggs, and dairy—play an important role globally in ensuring healthy and sustainable diets, according to a review published today in the Journal of Nutrition. In particular, many people suffering from undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia would benefit from increased consumption of nutrient dense animal-source foods.
Given these complex motivations, as well as the other constraints that consumers on lower incomes often face, what can firms do to meet them? The BMR project undertook a systematic review of existing research and evidence to find out. It revealed a few core areas for focus: product, marketing, and distribution.
We are delighted to announce that in the first New Year’s Honours List of King Charles III, Dr Lawrence Haddad has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for "services to International Nutrition, Food and Agriculture".
In advance of the 2022 AGRF Summit, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and AGRA produced a report to provide African leaders with cutting-edge data tools to do just this. This briefing paper summarises the main results of that effort.
On the ninth of May, 2002 GAIN was founded with the aim of tackling human suffering caused by malnutrition. Over the past 20 years, GAIN has been working with governments, businesses, and civil society to transform for food systems so that they can deliver more nutritional food for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
For the first time in the history of COP, food systems were put centre stage in the climate negotiations. Different pavilions and events focused on crucial aspects of the complex food systems and climate interactions.
Read our fourth story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact communities are seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Stella Nordhagen, our Senior Technical Specialist discusses the wide reaching ripple effect climate change will cause on our food systems and what actions need immediate attention.
COP27 was not the first time nutrition and climate have been mentioned in the same breath at a COP. That was in Paris in 2015 and no one really listened. Timing is everything and in Sharm El Sheik seven years later the timing was right.
