Reaching lower-income consumers with nutritious foods: the allure and the challenge

Reaching lower-income consumers with nutritious foods: the allure and the challenge

Is it possible to leverage entrepreneurs and businesses to help tackle the poor diets of hundreds of millions of low-income people, and if so, how? And what evidence do we have to show it works? A new five-year GAIN programme, part of a larger initiative aiming to improve the diets of low-income African consumers, aims to help answers to these questions.
Report Recommending Food Safety Additions to the Food Systems Dashboard

Report Recommending Food Safety Additions to the Food Systems Dashboard

- 08/08/2022

In this report, EatSafe addresses the gap of food safety data within the Food Systems Dashboard (FSD) by identifying indicators relevant to national food safety systems, assess the availability of data sources, and develops a systematic, quantitative scheme to evaluate indicators against FSD inclusion criteria.
Show Me Your Food Systems Budget

Show Me Your Food Systems Budget

In the follow up to the UN Food Systems Summit, national policymakers are building their food system transformation pathways to articulate their priorities and goals and how they will be achieved. This is genuinely exciting, and in our opinion is the most important legacy of the Summit process. But while minds have to be changed, so do means. Priorities have to be reflected in budget spreadsheets as well as in speeches if food system transformation is to happen.
GAIN and Act4Food Act4Change @ World Food Forum

GAIN and Act4Food Act4Change @ World Food Forum

- Rome, Global

World Food Forum is youth led movement network to transform our agricultural food systems. To inspire wide-spread discussion and action around this urgent topic, the World Food Forum (WFF) – a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems – is rallying around the 2022 theme: "Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet."
Food safety at GAIN

Food safety at GAIN

- 28/06/2022

Achieving optimal health and nutrition requires people to be both well-nourished and free from foodborne hazards. The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has long recognized the importance of integrating food safety to achieve global nutrition and food security goals. 
Youth demands on healthy and sustainable diets for COP27

Youth demands on healthy and sustainable diets for COP27

Healthy and sustainable food must be made more accessible, available, and affordable for all by governments and the private sector. Additionally, COP27 must address a comprehensive food systems transformation, including a focus on healthy and sustainable diets.
The Zero Hunger Coalition and Private Sector Pledge receive the support of the G7

The Zero Hunger Coalition and Private Sector Pledge receive the support of the G7

G7 Development Minister’s communique and the Chair’s Summary – Session 5: "Response to Multiple Crises on the African Continent – focusing on Food Security". The Zero Hunger Coalition and Private Sector Pledge have received strong support from the Communiqué 'Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in times of multiple crises' issued on 19 May 2022 by the G7 Development Ministers.
GAIN Statement @ World Health Assembly 75

GAIN Statement @ World Health Assembly 75

Today GAIN presents its statement on food safety to the 75th World Health Assembly taking place in Geneva. GAIN aims to make nutritious safe foods more desirable, available, and affordable for all. The new WHO global strategy for food safety launched today is an important milestone in linking the objectives of food safety, nutrition, and smart development, for if food isn’t safe, it isn’t food.