Benin - GAIN opens an office in the country to strengthen the fight against malnutrition

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss foundation launched by the United Nations, which has been working to reduce human suffering caused by malnutrition since 2002, will sign a memorandum of understanding with Benin's Ministry of Agriculture on Thursday 14 September 2023 to implement its activities. GAIN is thus inaugurating its official presence in the country.

Dietquality.org: launch of website providing new data and tools to enable diet quality monitoring globally

Gallup, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), today launched the Global Diet Quality Project’s website, dietquality.org, releasing data from 56 countries alongside ready to use tools for diet data collection and analysis.

Interview Cruncher - Beyond Compliance: Food Safety Standards Save Lives

Join us for an in-depth discussion of the critical role that food standards play in ensuring food safety beyond basic compliance. This year’s theme is Food standards save lives.

Taking action - the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution on Food Fortification

The WHA resolution "Accelerating efforts for preventing micronutrient deficiencies and their consequences, including spina bifida and other neural tube defects, through safe and effective food fortification," has united the health policy, disability rights, and nutrition communities in a joint effort to combat micronutrient deficiencies and their effects worldwide.

GAIN Discussion Paper Series 13 - The case for increased investment in food systems infrastructure in low and middle income countries

This paper discusses the critical importance of expanding 'food systems infrastructure' as a necessary pre-condition for improving access to healthy and sustainable diets in low- and middle-income countries. It proposes a tractable definition of food systems infrastructure, highlights deficits that have yet to be addressed, and lays out a generic way forward to accelerate infrastructure accumulation.