If it isn’t safe, it isn’t food: promoting food safety to achieve the 2030 SDG agenda

27 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

Food safety lies at the heart of addressing hunger and malnutrition, because if food it’s safe, it isn’t food. Progress towards SDG 2 by 2030 may not be realised if we do not ensure food safety. Stakeholders globally are engaging to discuss the development of a Coalition of Action for Food Safety.

Innovative and Youth Inclusive Food Policies: an open discussion between Member States and Young People from Act4Food Act4Change

21 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

This event is a Pre-event of the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit. It marks the start of productive, open conversations between Member State and Youth from the Act4Food Act4Change campaign. It will be a friendly discussion full of learnings between member states and youth as both sides share challenges and solutions on how they can work together to implement the Actions 4 Change.

Innovative Food System Solutions (IFSS) Portal - Bringing people together across the food system around solutions that ensure both human and planetary health for all

28 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

Food system transformation requires urgent actions to solve complex problems in inclusive and equitable ways across many sectors. The IFSS portal initiative is an ongoing open collaboration between groups working at the intersection of nutrition, sustainable agriculture, development economics, policy studies and environmental health. 

Launch of Nutrition Conversations Africa

14 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

The Nutrition Conversations Africa (NCAfrica) is an advocacy platform aimed at illuminating African nutritional challenges and opportunities, transformative ideas and game-changing solutions through continuous conversations, call to action, advocacy support and engagement to curb malnutrition in Africa.

Towards a Zero Hunger - nourish the future pledge for the private sector

26 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

The Zero Hunger, Nourish the Future Pledge is an opportunity for companies, investment funds, and philanthropies to align USD 5 billion of their resources with new evidence and complement their pledges with new commitments being made by global institutions and governments to end hunger and nourish the future by 2030.

Access to nutrition through the workplace: leveraging the private sector to combat global malnutrition

27 July 2021Online Webinar, Global

This UN Foods Systems Pre-Summit Affiliate Parallel Session hosted by the Government of Bangladesh Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) brings together leaders from government, civil society, the private sector and non-governmental organisations to explore the important role that workforce nutrition programmes are playing in addressing global malnutrition.

GAIN, Milan Urban Food Policy Pact and RUAF launch 'Food Action Cities'

PRESS RELEASE: GAIN, MUFPP, and RUAF are launching Food Action Cities. Food Action Cities is a knowledge platform where cities can share experiences, resources, and inspiration, and connect with each other’s journeys towards sustainable, resilient food systems that advance equitable access to improved nutrition.

Achieving healthy diets for all: What are the gaps constraining progress?

06 July 2021Global

Healthy diets are at the heart of the goals of the UN Food Systems Summit. Yet the global expert community has not coalesced around a common definition of a healthy diet, and comprehensive guidelines to characterize them across contexts are debated. In this session we will explore challenges and gaps to characterizing and achieving healthy diets.

World’s food sustainability leaders launch the Demand Generation Alliance to put tight focus on sustainable and nutritious food

PRESS RELEASE: The Demand Generation Alliance (DGA) was launched this week at the SDG Tent. The DGA’s objective is to encourage pressure from consumers, and wider society, to demand the urgent shift to more sustainable and nutritious foods. The alliance has been established with a single vision: to make nutritious and sustainable food the preferred consumer choice.

Global Summit Dialogue: Empowering cities and local governments to improve food systems globally

28 June 2021Global

On Monday 28 June, the Global Dialogue - Empowering Cities and Local Governments to improve food systems globally  will be held. This Dialogue is co-convened by GAIN, the FAO, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments and the Food Systems Summit Secretariat. The event aims to promote significant actions and commitments towards sustainable urban food systems transformation, through the exchange of perspectives of local governments representatives and various urban food systems stakeholders.