Advancing equitable access to nutrition for all food systems workers

02 December 2021  Online Webinar, Global

Join us in discussing how decent work opportunities, social protection mechanisms and workforce nutrition programmes can help achieve global nutrition security.

N4G Side Event: Leveraging the Workplace to Bring Improved Nutrition to Millions of Employees

16 November 2021  Online Webinar, Global

It bring together key leaders/expert in the fields of nutrition and labour, with high-level government representatives, leaders from the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI), and key private sector leaders to take a deep dive into the recently released (Sept 2021) WBA’s Food and Agriculture Benchmarks.

Financing for nutrition: Leveraging the pivotal role of Public Development Banks

17 December 2021  Online Webinar, Global

This event will focus on the pivotal role of PDBs in food and nutrition. The PDB coalition proposed by IFAD will also be presented. This initiative seeks to improve PDBs’ capacity to contribute to the transformation of sustainable food systems that can provide good and adequate nutrition to everyone.

Fruits and Vegetables - Key components of healthy diet

Fruits and vegetables are recommended across all dietary guidelines. Despite the nutrition credentials of vegetables, they remain relatively scarce and expensive in many low-income settings, including across many of the countries where GAIN’s main offices are based.

Meeting Consumers Where They Are – Innovative Approaches to Food Safety

11 January 2022  Online Webinar, Global

This webinar will inform participants how consumer behavior information can be used to inform food safety intervention design in traditional markets in low- and middle-income countries, as well as the variety of approaches currently in use that are consumer- and market-actor focused, behavioral in nature, measurable over time, and informed by community norms, local priorities, and cultural practices.

Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2021 - The Food Effect

11 December 2021  Online Webinar, Global

Join the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2021 as we hear from leading experts and innovators in the fight for food security and a sustainable future. Together, we will explore why and how food plays a central role in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how every person can join the effort to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. 

GAIN Briefing Paper Series 8 - GAIN's definition of nutritious and safe foods

GAIN’s mission and strategy revolve around the core concept of "nutritious and safe foods". In addition, there is a growing consensus that foods should be produced sustainably - i.e., that one should take into account the environmental impact associated with the production of these foods.

N4G Summit: Google commits to boost work of GAIN’s Workforce Nutrition Alliance 

The two-day Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 kicked off today with commitments made by leaders of governments, companies, international organizations, the United Nations, civil society organizations, and others. Key among them was the high-level commitment made by Google in the area of GAIN’s workforce nutrition. 

GAIN commitments to Nutrition

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) commits to support these goals by improving access to nutritious and safe foods in a sustainable way. We will register two major commitments in the Nutrition Accountability Framework in relation to improving diet quality for millions of people around the world.

What is Business Committing at the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021?

That goal was to identify ways that businesses large and small could support efforts to tackle all forms of malnutrition, recognizing that most of the core underlying problems of malnutrition can never be addressed without actions by those that grow, manufacture, distribute and market food to consumers.