How can businesses advance nutrition? The case of the 2021 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit
- 18/10/2022
Nutrition for Growth (N4G) is a Summit held every four years alongside the Olympic Games to galvanise global actions to tackle malnutrition.
GAIN Goes Green
- 31/10/2022
In line with our Environment Strategy, we aim to do the following at COP27 - Highlight the need for coordinated and integrated action on climate and nutrition to prevent disastrous increases in food insecurity and malnutrition resulting from climate change
Reducing food loss and waste brings clear benefits for both nutrition and the environment
Far too often, nutritious foods (many of which are perishable, and therefore susceptible to being lost or wasted through the supply chain) never make it to consumers. With levels of hunger and malnutrition as high as they currently are, this is a travesty.
GAIN Premix Facility
- 11/10/2022
Today, more than 125 countries have mandatory food fortification programmes. Food fortification requires a "premix" – a mixture of vitamins and minerals – that can then be added to various staple products.
GAIN Congratulates the City Winners of the 2022 Milan Pact Awards
GAIN proudly congratulates the winning cities of the 2022 Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Awards. Executive Director, Lawrence Haddad was part of an international jury of experts who evaluated the urban food systems practices, submitted by cities, across six categories: Governance, Sustainable Diets and Nutrition, Social and Economic Equity, Food Production, Food Supply and Distribution and Food Waste.
Story 3: Russia’s War in Ukraine: Implications for the Indian Food System
Read our third 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. Tarun Vij, our India Country Director discusses the wide reaching ripple effect India is experiencing and what actions need immediate attention.
Story 2: Strengthening Nutrition Resilience and Food Security on the African Continent
Read our second story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact we're seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Mduduzi Mbuya and Saul Morris speak about the common threads connecting the threat to African food systems.
Global Report 2022 - Measuring what the world eats
- 19/10/2022
Gallup, Harvard University, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition teamed up to overcome this challenge by initiating the Global Diet Quality Project. Through this project we have created a new approach that enables countries to track diet quality year to year, seasonally, or even more frequently.
Unhealthy diets are jeopardising our health
Gallup, Harvard University, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) have today published a new report on diet quality entitled Measuring What the World Eats.It is the first report from the Global Diet Quality Project, with data based on the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ), a standard questionnaire which takes just five minutes to complete.
Brief - Measuring what the world eats
- 19/10/2022
The Global Diet Quality Project offers a new approach that enables countries to track diet quality. The project’s Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) allows users to investigate both diet adequacy and diet components that protect against or increase risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)