Fortifying the supply chain – addressing premix challenges
Online Webinar, Global
Food fortification is one of the safest, most effective and affordable ways to help consumers meet recommended daily intakes of micronutrients.
More global leadership in food and nutrition is sorely needed – the US can help lead the way
Until every child in the world goes to bed nourished properly, we cannot rest. Our food systems are moving us in the wrong directions: hunger levels are rising, undernutrition levels are at severe risk of rising, obesity is increasing, we are off track to meet climate targets, biodiversity is being squandered, not enough decent jobs are being created and community resilience is being undermined.
US leadership needed to end world hunger
24 World Food Prize Laureates from across the globe, dedicated to driving change in food systems, are calling on the leadership of the United States Administration to help end world hunger. The World Food Prize Laureates submitted an open letter to the President of the United States of America, Joseph R. Biden Jr., calling on the new Biden-Harris administration to help achieve the global goals on food.
GAIN Interview Cruncher: Building our markets forward better
Online Webinar, Global
Keeping the food systems working during the pandemic is essential through our support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that produce, transport, process, and market most food for low-income consumers globally. The more so as people increasingly rely on traditional forms of retail. In fact over 90% of fruit and vegetable produced in low-income countries are sold by traditional small retailers.
Transforming food systems and investing in Nutrition for Growth - staple food fortification and the role of the private sector
Online Webinar, Global
Global food systems are powered by private sector investment and entrepreneurs, micro, small, medium, and large. Staple food fortification is an extremely effective, low-cost, food systems intervention with enormous potential to reduce micronutrient malnutrition across large populations.
GAIN Interview Cruncher: Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle
Online Webinar, Global
On Thursday 18th February don’t miss the "GAIN Interview Cruncher- Response to COVID-19 from food systems angle" at 2pm CET. The webinar will host the experts to discuss the Keeping Food Markets Working initiative, what’s at stake and why this is so relevant in building our food systems forward better.
Food systems actions: charting the pathway through complexity
Food systems are notoriously complex. Many actors are involved, from subsistence farmers through to multinational corporations with more economic power than many small nations, and from informal ambulant vendors through supranational bureaucracies.
Providing supplementary nutritious foods at work during COVID-19 - the benefits to workers and considerations for employers
- 28/01/2021
This slide deck offers recommendations on the provisions of nutritious foods during the global COVID-19 pandemic and is part of a broader effort to develop an implementation support programme, supporting employers to implement Workforce Nutrition programmes.
Business accountability for better nutrition
- 01/01/2021
With the Nutrition for Growth and United Nations Food Systems Summits scheduled in 2021, ambitious new multi-stakeholder commitments and actions are expected for better access to safe nutritious food. In 2019 the world was already off-track to achieve SDG2 - Zero Hunger - and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to exacerbate this gap requiring stronger financing and actions for nutrition.
Weathering the pandemic to build back better - Options for supporting agri-food SMEs in low and middle-income countries
- 16/12/2020
This paper summarises research conducted on the impacts of COVID-19 on LMICs’ food systems. It reviews interventions implemented to support agri-food SMEs, including rapid responses to keep markets working, strategic recovery interventions to build back better, and systemic shifts to facilitate continuous learning and adaptation.