Beacons for exploring uncharted nutrition territory
Last week, GAIN co-led a five-day Executive Short Course entitled "Together for Nutrition: Public-Private engagement to improve the consumption of nutritious food". The course, the first of its kind, was made available by the six funders who together support GAIN’s Making Markets Work for Nutritious Foods programme.
Meat and greet
What makes a great footballer? Presumably, training, determination… and muscle. Building muscle requires consuming large amounts of protein and energy, and eating meat is a highly efficient way of doing this. For the rest of us who are not athletes, however, it is less challenging to consume enough protein and energy in a standard portion size of food, and hundreds of millions of adults live a happy and healthy life without consuming any meat.
Introduction to the Conference on Building Business Contributions for the 2020 Global Nutrition Summit in Japan
Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of GAIN, gave an introductory speech at the Conference on Building Business Contributions for the 2020 Global Nutrition Summit in Japan.
Rethinking business engagement and nutrition
Recently GAIN and the Accesss to Nutrition Foundation (ATNF) co-hosted a meeting on "Building Business Commitments for the 2020 Nutrition for Growth Summit" in The Hague. There were 140 participants, with over 60 representatives from the business community. The host was the Government of the Netherlands and the meeting was opened by the Government of Japan, which will host next year’s Global Nutrition Summit.
The evidence for workforce nutrition programmes
- 01/07/2019
In this series, GAIN outlines the evidence for the four most common workforce nutrition interventions: healthy food at work; nutrition education; nutrition-focused health checks; and breastfeeding support. Each evidence brief outlines the possible interventions, reviews the literature to date, suggests best practices, and showcases success stories from front-runner businesses in the specific intervention area.
Creating consumer demand and driving appropriate utilization of fortified foods
- 20/06/2018
This chapter aims to capture lessons learned from both public and private sector experiences and will discuss key determinants of demand and consumption of fortified foods, illustrated with examples from the field and lessons learned on what worked and what has not worked.
Nutrition policies and programs in low- and middle-income countries
- 20/06/2018
This chapter describes the recommendations and norms guiding current policies and programs to address undernutrition, the existence of policies and programs in low- and middle- income countries, some of their strengths and challenges, and provides examples of how better generation and use of information could accelerate progress in nutrition.
Developing national strategies to prevent and control micronutrient deficiency: the role of food fortification
- 20/06/2018
Food fortification is a cost-effective strategy for addressing demonstrated nutrient deficiencies in the contexts of a combination of marginal diets, vulnerable population segments, and other drivers of deficiency. In this chapter, we present and discuss issues pertaining to the development of national strategies to prevent and control micronutrient deficiency, with specific focus on the role of food fortification.
Program performance and synthesis of monitoring information for food fortification
- 20/06/2018
This chapter provides an overview of monitoring and evaluation issues related to food fortification. It presents the foundational 2006 WHO monitoring and evaluation framework for food fortification and briefly describes regulatory and household individual monitoring and evaluation components.