Safe, nutritious food is everyone’s business
2021 has marked a turning point for food safety in the global public discourse. The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted vulnerabilities in our food system, including the importance of food safety and its role in nutrition and health. We are starting to see the pressing need to establish capacity to support domestic food safety in low- and middle-income countries.
Advancing equitable access to nutrition for all food systems workers
Online Webinar, Global
Join us in discussing how decent work opportunities, social protection mechanisms and workforce nutrition programmes can help achieve global nutrition security.
N4G Side Event: Leveraging the Workplace to Bring Improved Nutrition to Millions of Employees
Online Webinar, Global
It bring together key leaders/expert in the fields of nutrition and labour, with high-level government representatives, leaders from the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI), and key private sector leaders to take a deep dive into the recently released (Sept 2021) WBA’s Food and Agriculture Benchmarks.
Financing for nutrition: Leveraging the pivotal role of Public Development Banks
Online Webinar, Global
This event will focus on the pivotal role of PDBs in food and nutrition. The PDB coalition proposed by IFAD will also be presented. This initiative seeks to improve PDBs’ capacity to contribute to the transformation of sustainable food systems that can provide good and adequate nutrition to everyone.
Fruits and Vegetables - Key components of healthy diet
Fruits and vegetables are recommended across all dietary guidelines. Despite the nutrition credentials of vegetables, they remain relatively scarce and expensive in many low-income settings, including across many of the countries where GAIN’s main offices are based.
Meeting Consumers Where They Are – Innovative Approaches to Food Safety
Online Webinar, Global
This webinar will inform participants how consumer behavior information can be used to inform food safety intervention design in traditional markets in low- and middle-income countries, as well as the variety of approaches currently in use that are consumer- and market-actor focused, behavioral in nature, measurable over time, and informed by community norms, local priorities, and cultural practices.
Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2021 - The Food Effect
Online Webinar, Global
Join the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2021 as we hear from leading experts and innovators in the fight for food security and a sustainable future. Together, we will explore why and how food plays a central role in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how every person can join the effort to eradicate hunger and malnutrition.
GAIN Briefing Paper Series 8 - GAIN's definition of nutritious and safe foods
GAIN’s mission and strategy revolve around the core concept of "nutritious and safe foods". In addition, there is a growing consensus that foods should be produced sustainably - i.e., that one should take into account the environmental impact associated with the production of these foods.