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A Year of Safer Food: GAIN’s Top 10 Evidence-Driven Wins

World Food Safety Day 2025

Every year, unsafe food makes 600 million people sick and claims 420,000 lives – including 125,000 children under five (World Health Organization, 2015). These aren’t just numbers; they’re a call to action. At GAIN, we are using science and evidence to change this. For World Food Safety Day, we are spotlighting 10 ways we’ve advanced food safety over the past year.

Incofin and GAIN back three more nutrition-focused enterprises to strengthen food systems in East Africa

Incofin Investment Management and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), through the Nutritious Food Financing Facility (N3F), have announced new investments in three pioneering food enterprises in East Africa: Soy Afric in Kenya, and Mkuza Chicks Ltd and Rainbow Haulage in Tanzania.

GAIN Student Challenge 2025

01 June 2025 - 30 November 2025 , Global

The GAIN Student Challenge returns in November 2025 for its fourth edition! This unique, two-day challenge will bring together 50 students from across the Netherlands to co-develop, alongside peers from a Sub-Saharan African University, sustainable and innovative solutions to real-world food system challenges from one of GAIN’s projects.

Child Stunting And Overweight: Insights And Policy Recommendations From 12 Country Analyses

- 22/05/2025

This brief shares an analysis of trends in stunting and overweight among children under five – two of the six Global Nutrition Targets set by the World Health Assembly (WHA) for achievement by 2025 – in 12 focus countries.

5th Global Conference of the One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems Programme

27 May 2025 - 29 May 2025 , Global

This global gathering will bring together governments, UNFSS national convenors, Rio Convention negotiators, civil society, private sector actors and more, to co-create practical, equitable, and integrated solutions across food, climate, biodiversity, and nutrition policies.

Sowing Success: The Journey of High Iron Beans in Tanzania

In Tanzania, 85- 90% of the land is cultivated by smallholder farmers majority of whom face challenges in getting access to quality seeds and assured markets for their produce, thus limiting their capabilities to produce quality produce and generate steady income. Currently, 57% of pregnant women in Tanzania are anemic. Additionally, according to the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2015 (TDHS), 58% of children under the age of 5 years in the country were anemic.