How can businesses advance nutrition? The case of the 2021 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit
- 18/10/2022
Nutrition for Growth (N4G) is a Summit held every four years alongside the Olympic Games to galvanise global actions to tackle malnutrition.Reports and publications
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GAIN Goes Green
In line with our Environment Strategy, we aim to do the following at COP27 - Highlight the need for coordinated and integrated action on climate and nutrition to prevent disastrous increases in food insecurity and malnutrition resulting from climate change
GAIN Premix Facility
- 11/10/2022
Today, more than 125 countries have mandatory food fortification programmes. Food fortification requires a "premix" – a mixture of vitamins and minerals – that can then be added to various staple products.
Global Report 2022 - Measuring what the world eats
- 19/10/2022
Gallup, Harvard University, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition teamed up to overcome this challenge by initiating the Global Diet Quality Project. Through this project we have created a new approach that enables countries to track diet quality year to year, seasonally, or even more frequently.
Brief - Measuring what the world eats
- 19/10/2022
The Global Diet Quality Project offers a new approach that enables countries to track diet quality. The project’s Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) allows users to investigate both diet adequacy and diet components that protect against or increase risk of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)
New Global Estimates for Hidden Hunger
- 11/10/2022
The Lancet Global Health article is the first evidence-based global estimation of micronutrient (vitamin and minerals) deficiencies that systematically analyzed data on population-representative surveys from preschool-aged children and women of reproductive age.
GAIN's Response to COVID-19 - Keeping Food Markets Working
- 20/09/2022
GAIN, Unilever, and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) saw an opportunity to improve the nutrition and health of farmers, workers, and their families in supply chains, whilst working to increase supplier and worker satisfaction, productivity and brand loyalty.
The Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT)
- 17/09/2022
Motivated by the need for such information for its own programmes, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) developed the Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT) in 2013 for carrying out coverage assessments of fortification programmes.
The UN Food Systems Summit
- 15/09/2022
The UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Summit, Dr. Agnes Kalibata invited GAIN’s Executive Director Dr. Lawrence Haddad to lead Action Track 1 (AT1) on Ensuring Access to Safe and Nutritious Food for All.
The Food Systems Dashboard
- 14/09/2022
Supported initially by the Dutch Government and the Rockefeller Foundation and launched in the journal Nature Food in June 2020, GAIN, along with Johns Hopkins University, FAO, CIAT, the University of Michigan and Ag2Nut decided to create a platform that pulled together all the high-quality data available, organise it by food system component and make it easy to analyse, compare and visualise.