GAIN Interview Cruncher: Building our markets forward better

24 February 2021Online 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

03 March 2021Online 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

18 February 2021Online 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.

4th MUFPP Regional Forum

15 February 2021- 18 February 2021Online Webinar, Global

This 4th MUFPP regional forum will focus on exchanges between cities and sharing good city practices. There will be reflected upon city progress of commitments made in past Forums and on how cities move to provide food to populations during emergencies.

Keeping food flowing within African food systems by busting policy myths

I love academic papers that use evidence to try and shift stubborn policy perspectives, especially when those policy perspectives seem to be holding back development and hunger reduction. So, it is no surprise that I like the recent paper by Liverpool-Tasie et al. (2020) on persistent myths that are held about African food supply chains.

UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 - Public Forum

25 February 2021Online Webinar, Global

Action Track 1 (AT1) strives to identify game-changing ideas to transform food systems and achieve the goal of ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all. This second Public Forum will focus on our current thinking of some our game-changing ideas relevant to AT1 and present a platform to engage with, connect, and listen to your reflections on where we stand.