What is the role of animal-source foods in healthy and sustainable diets?

Animal-source foods—meat, fish, eggs, and dairy—play an important role globally in ensuring healthy and sustainable diets, according to a review published today in the Journal of Nutrition. In particular, many people suffering from undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia would benefit from increased consumption of nutrient dense animal-source foods.

Reaching Lower-Income Consumers with Nutritious Foods - Get the Product Right, Market it Well, and Get it Out There

Given these complex motivations, as well as the other constraints that consumers on lower incomes often face, what can firms do to meet them? The BMR project undertook a systematic review of existing research and evidence to find out. It revealed a few core areas for focus: product, marketing, and distribution. 

GAIN's ED awarded the Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

We are delighted to announce that in the first New Year’s Honours List of King Charles III, Dr Lawrence Haddad has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for "services to International Nutrition, Food and Agriculture".

GAIN Briefing Paper Series 9 - Africa Food Systems

In advance of the 2022 AGRF Summit, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and AGRA produced a report to provide African leaders with cutting-edge data tools to do just this. This briefing paper summarises the main results of that effort.

GAIN Interview Cruncher - GAIN@20 The Journey to Better Nutrition for All

On the ninth of May, 2002 GAIN was founded with the aim of tackling human suffering caused by malnutrition. Over the past 20 years, GAIN has been working with governments, businesses, and civil society to transform for food systems so that they can deliver more nutritional food for all people, especially the most vulnerable.

As the dust settles from COP27, here’s how we can move forward actions for nutrition and the environment

For the first time in the history of COP, food systems were put centre stage in the climate negotiations. Different pavilions and events focused on crucial aspects of the complex food systems and climate interactions.

Story 4: The Importance of Increasing the Resilience of Food and Nutrition Security to Climate Change

Read our fourth story in the series on The Food Crisis: What's Happening, a collection of work on the current events and the impact communities are seeing on a global scale. The Food Crisis is affecting everyone socially, economically and nutritionally. Stella Nordhagen, our Senior Technical Specialist discusses the wide reaching ripple effect climate change will cause on our food systems and what actions need immediate attention. 

GAIN Statement @ COP27

COP27 was not the first time nutrition and climate have been mentioned in the same breath at a COP. That was in Paris in 2015 and no one really listened. Timing is everything and in Sharm El Sheik seven years later the timing was right.

Retail food environment and green spaces for healthy cities: a methodological approach based o

15 November 2022  Online Webinar, Global

Retail food environments influence most aspects of food environments, that is what food is available, its price, quality, convenience and promotion, and the willingness to purchase and consume a healthy diet.

Initiative on climate action and nutrition (I-CAN)

Climate change impacts and risks are becoming increasingly complex and more difficult to manage. Simultaneously, the world is facing the complex challenges of hunger and multiple forms of malnutrition.