Coalition for Action for Safe Food for All Launches at the Pre-Food Systems Summit

The new Coalition aims at featuring food safety as an essential element of the United Nations Food Systems Summit Action Track 1, Ensure access to safe and nutritious food for all. During the event moderated by Caroline Smith DeWaal, Deputy Director of EatSafe, the two co-chairs of the Action Track 1, Pawan Agarwal and Delia Grace, announced the coalition’s inception.

Session: Achieving Zero Hunger Nutritiously and Sustainably

"We are truly the first generation with a real chance of ending hunger and malnutrition". GAIN Executive Director and Chair for the UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 Lawrence Haddad noted as he opened  the Achieving Zero Hunger session at the United Nations Food Systems Summit.

Building Businesses with Nutrient Enriched Crops

24 August 2021Online Webinar, Global

In this webinar, we shall focus on the opportunities for the adoption of biofortified crops by SMEs and experience sharing of some of the businesses associated with biofortification. This webinar will generate awareness and interest amongst the food processors, retail markets including digital marketplaces and associated businesses in the biofortified foods supply chain.

International Youth Day – Prioritizing safely feeding the next generation

Today is International Youth Day, an awareness day created by the United Nations. The theme this year, "Transforming food systems: Youth innovation for human and planetary health", highlights the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit, an international event providing global leaders an opportunity to launch new policy and programmatic actions for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A working guide for Urban Food Listing

- 09/08/2021

As the importance of national level information on dietary intakes in low- and middle-income countries is increasingly recognized; reliable methods, tools and guides to support the compilation of quality food and nutrient intake data are needed. In general, guidance on how to adequately prepare for a dietary survey prior to embarking on data collection is scarce.

Incentives and opportunities for the inclusion of SMEs in the business accountability landscape

- 29/07/2021

In January 2021, GAIN published its latest report "Business Accountability for Better Nutrition" listing concrete ways to improve business accountability by using a number of existing reporting tools to assess business impact on nutrition

Cities and Local Food Systems

28 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

On Wednesday 28 July, 09:00-10:30 CEST the informal Urban Food Systems Working Group is organising the United Nations Food Systems pre-summit session "Cities and Local Food Systems". GAIN’s Urban programme and FAO are co-leads of the organising working group, which involves several city networks, UN agencies and other civil society organisations and academia. 

Towards a Coalition on the true value of food: Making markets work for healthy & sustainable food

27 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

By redefining the value of food through True Cost Accounting and redesigning the economics of food through true pricing, market players and governments can increase the true value food markets create for society. In this session, both the science and practical examples will be discussed.

Closing the evidence gap for food systems transformation – enabling access to data and providing evidence to monitor progress

26 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

This session will feature a multi-sectoral panel from across Action Tracks and Innovation Levers focused on the challenges and opportunities for more and better data, more useful data, and more data use for food systems transformation. It will feature a moderated panel discussion followed by an open Q&A.