- 30/03/2026
The ONE Nutrition Toolkit brings together practical guidance and training materials to support a systems-based approach to nutrition. It helps practitioners link food systems, human health, and environmental sustainability to drive better diets and stronger communities. It includes a Facilitator’s Guide and Slide Deck designed to support training, learning, and real-world application of the ONE Nutrition approach across diverse contexts.
- Global
For International Women’s Day 2026, GAIN aligns with the global theme “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls”, highlighting how investing in nutrition supports women’s rights, strengthens agency, and drives long-term development.
- Global
World Children’s Day 2025 – 20th Nov My Day, My Rights GAIN strengthens school meals, supports local SMEs, and boosts access to nutrient-rich foods. We empower children and youth as changemakers to build healthier, stronger communities.Billions of people worldwide are malnourished. Food systems transformation is essential to address this challenge, yet it is not happening fast enough. The cost of a healthy diet and food insecurity are instead heading in the wrong direction. Without significant intervention, billions of people will remain unable to access healthy diets and continue to be malnourished. GAIN is dedicated to improving this situation and experienced in designing and delivering high-quality programming, but we often run into challenges that limit our impact. For example, identifying promising areas or populations to target for maximum impact; making decisions with incomplete or low-quality data; localising interventions or content to different populations and contexts; understanding complex food supply chains; or verifying the compliance of partners with fortification standards or other guidelines.
This strategy is intended to demonstrate how the Global Alliance forImproved Nutrition (GAIN) can harness the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate impact across our programmes. It offers a practical high-level view for leaders and staff across the organisation to understand where and how AI can add value to our mission of ensuring healthy diets for all, especially the most vulnerable. By clarifying opportunities and limitations, the strategy provides a common framework for experimentation, learning, and responsible adoption of AI.
This strategy sets out how we will integrate AI into our programmes to better achieve our mission: ensuring all people, especially the most vulnerable, have access to healthy diets. Our approach focuses on using AI to design more impactful programmes, deliver them more efficiently, and scale them more rapidly. We will integrate general AI best practices across programmes while adopting specific tools and technologies where they add value.
Our objective is to cultivate an organisational culture where AI is not a technological add-on but a strategic enabler of greater nutrition impact. We also see an opportunity to play a leading role in shaping how AI is applied in food and nutrition programming, contributing thought leadership and demonstrating models that others can adopt and adapt.
Billions of people are still affected by #malnutrition, and despite global efforts, progress remains too slow. #AI offers a powerful opportunity to change that.
From identifying high-impact intervention areas, improving #data quality, and understanding complex #supplychain , to localising programmes across diverse contexts—AI is reshaping the way we design and deliver #nutrition solutions.
In this video, Ty Beal highlights how GAIN is strategically applying #artificialintelligence to strengthen programmes, boost efficiency, and accelerate impact for healthier diets worldwide.
Billions of people worldwide are malnourished. Despite our best efforts, the cost of a healthy diet and food insecurity continue heading in the wrong direction. Without significant intervention, this crisis will persist—but we believe artificial intelligence (AI) represents a powerful new tool to help change that trajectory.
At GAIN, we're no strangers to the challenges that limit our impact: identifying the right populations to target, making decisions with incomplete data, localising interventions across diverse contexts, understanding complex supply chains, and verifying compliance with fortification standards. These obstacles slow our progress toward a world where everyone can access healthy diets.
Meanwhile, AI adoption has surged from niche experimentation to mainstream deployment. Today, 78% of companies use AI in at least one business function—up from 55% just a year earlier. The development sector has seen transformative technologies before: mobile money and text messaging revolutionised how we deliver resources and information to remote populations. AI represents the next wave of innovation—one we must harness thoughtfully and strategically.
Director, Knowledge Leadership
Senior Technical Specialist
Climate & Nutrition Integration
The I-CAN Assessment 2025 aims to provide a snapshot into the current state of integration between climate and nutrition action across 16 indicators in policy and finance. Despite modest progress since 2023, the report makes clear that integration of climate and nutrition in key international and national policies and financing remains limited, slowing progress towards both reducing malnutrition and climate goals.
However, the report also helps to highlight priority areas for action, spotlighting examples of best practice we can learn from as we progress into the second half of this critical decade for the SDGs and climate action.
In this episode of Bite the Talk, Oliver Camp of GAIN about the critical, interconnected challenges and opportunities between climate change and nutrition. He discusses how the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) is working to find "win-win" solutions, urging for better integration of nutrition into climate policies and finance ahead of COP30
It is likely that warming will exceed 1.5°C during the 21st century
As many as 673 million people are undernourished
The impact of malnutrition in all its forms is estimated to be US$3.5 trillion each year
For the 2025 I-CAN assessment report, we have developed a methodology where 4 classification levels are used to determine the degree of integration between climate and nutrition.
These classification levels are used across a range of indicators (where applicable) and are designed to be action-oriented progressing toward the higher levels.
The September 2025 deadline for NDCs 3.0 was a pivotal opportunity for countries to increase the scope and ambition of their climate action plans – but the majority still show low levels of climate and nutrition integration – 79% of all updated documents score Level 2 or below.
National Nutrition Plans (NNPs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) show both greater improvement since 2023 and higher levels of integration compared with mitigation focused strategies such as NDCs.
Stronger integration at the nexus of gender, nutrition and climate change: ccGAPs showed the greatest climate and nutrition integration across all policy indicators, with 69% scoring at the highest two levels (Level 3 or 4).
Only a very minor share of financing provided by bilateral donors and major development banks supports dual climate and nutrition objectives. There remains little consistency in the reporting frameworks used to measure the impact of finance commitments, making it difficult to determine the true volume of finance going to climate- and nutrition-related activities.
Lead Consultant, Food Systems
Consultant, Land Use and Food Systems
Lead, Environment and Nutrition
Environment and Food Systems Advocacy Advisor
Executive Director’s Office Analyst
- 11/10/2025
Global food systems generate a wide range of health, environmental, and socio-economic externalities that vary across regions, demographic groups, value chains, and production contexts. These include positive effects such as improved food and nutrition security, better air and water quality, job creation and community development, but also negative outcomes such as malnutrition and diet-related diseases, climate change and land degradation, unfair labour practices and rights violations. Yet, these costs and benefits are rarely reflected in the market price of food. To design future food systems that promote health, environmental sustainability, social equity/justice, and resilience, we must make these hidden impacts visible and act upon them.
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GAIN is working to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable. We know that if food is not safe, it is not food. That is why our mission includes improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of nutritious and safe foods, and reducing the consumption of unhealthy and unsafe foods.
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2025 Theme : FAO’s 80th Anniversary World Food Day is an international day celebrated every year worldwide on October 16 to commemorate the date of the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945. Stay tuned for GAIN’s contributions to World Food Day 2025.
