What is Business Committing at the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021?
That goal was to identify ways that businesses large and small could support efforts to tackle all forms of malnutrition, recognizing that most of the core underlying problems of malnutrition can never be addressed without actions by those that grow, manufacture, distribute and market food to consumers.
Nutritious Foods Financing Facility, a blended finance approach
Online Webinar, Global
This Nutrition for Growth (N4G) side-event explores a new initiative, with a blended finance approach, backed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Eleanor Crook Foundation, Incofin Investment Management and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
Transforming food systems for better nutrition, health, and prosperity
Online Webinar, Global
Over the course of the past two years, and in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, the UN Secretary-General’s Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) has engaged world leaders and thousands of people from around the world in an ambitious effort to accelerate actions towards more sustainable, equitable, and healthier food systems and realising the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Financing the Nutrition Agenda: New Commitments, New Partnerships
Online Webinar, Global
Global malnutrition is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is the leading cause of child death, and contributes to a staggering loss of educational and economic potential for people and for nations. More targeted nutrition financing, from more diverse actors, needs to be delivered now to meet the scale of the challenge we face.
A Lancet Series on Adolescent Nutrition
Today, The Lancet will launch a series of three papers that compile knowledge on the role of nutrition in adolescent growth and the drivers of adolescent food choice, and provide recommendations on how to achieve better nutrition outcomes for this generation. The papers will be officially launched at an event hosted by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and The Lancet today.
Making food affordable for rural people: Is it possible?
Online Webinar, Global
This N4G side event brings together different voices and perspective from governments, food systems experts and CSOs to discuss food systems solutions to increase food availability and affordability for rural people, identify interlinkages and connect the dots.
The critical role of urban, local and regional governments in resilient food systems and access to healthy and diverse diets for all
Online Webinar, Global
This event will focus on raising awareness of value and role of urban, local and regional governments in making food systems more inclusive, equitable, sustainable and resilient to advance healthy diets for all. Such awareness is most critical and relevant where commitments and actions that underline the transformation of urban food systems also robustly connect with the food systems at "higher levels" (regional, territorial, national and global).
GAINxWWF: How GAIN is Becoming a 'Green' Nutrition NGO
When we launched GAIN’s new Environment Strategy internally in March 2021, it quickly became clear that protecting the planet is a cause that carries huge significance for GAIN staff, for a whole host of different reasons. Some colleagues took inspiration from the natural beauty of the world around them, from the stunning savannahs of Tanzania and rolling highlands of Kenya through to the incredible diversity of India and the lakes and mountains of Geneva.
A food systems approach for better nutrition and planetary health
Online Webinar, Global
Hosted by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), Food System Economics Commission (FSEC) and EAT this event will bring together different stakeholders involved in shaping food systems - producers, civil society, research organizations, private sector, and governments – for an open conversation that mobilizes action on nutrition and identifies solutions to today’s nutrition crisis.