GAIN Briefing Paper n°12- Political Economy Decision Toolkit For Food Systems Pathways – In Brief
- 28/11/2024
Political economy dynamics—that is, conflicts and trade-offs across different interest groups that play an important role in the food system—permeate many decisions about food systems policy and implementation. Development practitioners working in the food systems space—inclusive of agriculture, nutrition, and environment—need to be aware of these dynamics to be able to support policy advocacy, development, and implementation. To assist in anticipating policy bottlenecks to food systems transformation, a toolkit was developed to examine six main domains within national policy systems. The six domains are: policy stability and inclusionary decision-making, stakeholder preferences, multi-sectoral coordination, multi-level coordination, financing, and administrative capacities.
Delivering for Nutrition 2024 Conference
- Colombo, Sri Lanka, and online, Global
Political Economy Decision Toolkit: Anticipating Policy Bottlenecks to Food System Transformation
Food system transformation requires long-term commitment, but we live in a world of short-term political cycles and unforeseen crises that can deter momentum and reset policy priorities. Given that political economy dynamics can stymie efforts to implement food systems transformation agendas, GAIN has partnered with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to develop a Political Economy Decision Toolkit that identifies possible bottlenecks ex-ante and utilizes different sets of strategies to overcome them. The Toolkit was informed by discussions with GAIN’s policy advisors across Africa and Asia and revolves around six main domains that can be applied to either a narrow food policy issue, such as expanding school meals programmes, or to a broader topic, such as implementing national food system pathways.
Global Child Nutrition Forum
- Osaka, Japan, Global
School Meal Programs in an Era of Food Systems Transformation- 4 days of peer-to-peer exchange and technical workshops bringing together school meal program leaders from around the world.
WEBINAR: Taking stock of the implementation of policies and legal frameworks to transform food systems in Kenya: Progress, Challenges, and opportunities
Manifesto for Accelerated Action Convening of Large-Scale Food Fortification Practitioners
- 12/11/2024
Deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals (micronutrients) cause devastating damage, particularly for children and women of reproductive age, resulting in increased risks of death, disabilities, more severe and longer-lasting illness, and compromised cognitive and physical development and performance and productivity of people and countries.
Integrating Nutrition into Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) 3.0
- 12/11/2024
Good nutrition is vital for planetary and human health. Nutrition action complements measures across food systems and health systems to support both mitigation and adaptation and increase community resilience. Unhealthy foods are more greenhouse gas intensive. Food and nutrition security is threatened by climate-related impacts on migration, conflict and livelihoods. Climate change exacerbates malnutrition in all its forms.
Biodiversity and Nutrition Synergies: Evaluating National Biodiversity Strategies and Actions Plans for Integration
- 22/10/2024
The Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN) presents a new report that analyses the intersection of biodiversity and nutrition, "Biodiversity and Nutrition Synergies: Evaluating National Biodiversity Strategies and Actions Plans for Integration." The report offers a comprehensive analysis of 192 National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), revealing the current state of nutrition integration in biodiversity policies worldwide.