
GAIN Interview Cruncher - The Urgent Need for Investment in Food Systems Infrastructure
This Interview Cruncher will highlight the crucial role of "food systems infrastructure" in enabling access to healthy and sustainable diets in low- and middle-income countries. It will aim to offer a clear definition of what food systems infrastructure entails and identifies gaps that still need to be addressed. 
78th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78)
- New York, Global
The 78th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78) will open on Tuesday, 12 September 2023. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Monday, 25 September 2023.
My hopes for the UN Food Systems Summit+2 “Stocktaking Moment”
Recently I was on panel chaired by the UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohamed, where I was asked three questions about the UN’s “Stocktaking Moment” two years after the UN Food Systems Summit of 2021 (UNFSS). Here are my answers to the questions.
GAIN Working Paper Series 35 - Assessment of the Scale Up of Emotional Demonstrations in Indonesia
The objective of this paper is to describe the initial scaling-up phase of the 'Baduta' programme (Baduta 2), which aimed to support national stunting-reduction efforts in Indonesia through emotional demonstrations (‘emo demos’), reflecting on the challenges faced and ensuing lessons learned, following the promising results of the 2017 evaluation of the programme.
Innovative Financing - Creative New Ways to Fund Improved Nutrition
Good nutrition has a hugely positive impact on health and other social goals, like educational attainment and work productivity – but the sector remains under-financed relative to its potential. How can we change this?
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.
Partnerships for systemic change - Practical approaches in food systems
Online, Global
On 22 June 2023 (Thursday, 9.00 to 10.30 AM EST/2.00 to 3.30 PM BST) Nutrition Connect and IFSS Portal, and Glocolearning, will host a 90-minute virtual workshop to highlight the central role of partnerships in ushering systemic change, by exemplifying practical approaches in food systems.
Climate and nutrition are inexorably linked and need joined-up action
Until recently, action taken to address climate change and malnutrition were two entirely separate conversations, with two eco-systems that did not interact. That is no longer sustainable. We cannot properly address climate change without addressing nutrition and vice versa.