On Monday 28 June, the Global Dialogue - Empowering Cities and Local Governments to improve food systems globally will be held. This Dialogue is co-convened by GAIN, the FAO, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments and the Food Systems Summit Secretariat. The event aims to promote significant actions and commitments towards sustainable urban food systems transformation, through the exchange of perspectives of local governments representatives and various urban food systems stakeholders.
BLOG: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the food system have been well captured over the last year. Before COVID-19, SMEs in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) were already facing several challenges that limited their ability to grow and increase production of affordable nutritious foods. production, to knowledge and technical support to improve food safety and quality, and to networks to grow and share knowledge.
BLOG: Over the past eight months we—in our capacity as Action Track Chairs for the UN Food Systems Summit—have received well over 2,000 written submissions from around the world on how to transform food systems so that they can deliver access to safe and nutritious foods for all, in ways that deliver sustainable consumption, use approaches that are positive and regenerative for nature, generate livelihoods and decent work for those who depend on the food system, while promoting equity and building resilience for all.
On 17 June 2021, 14:00-16:00 CEST, GAIN, the Netherlands Working Group on International Nutrition (NWGN) and JOGG (Healthy Youth, Healthy Future) are hosting an online independent UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) Dialogue: "Healthy cities, healthy children – a dialogue on lessons from Dutch cities’ systems approaches to prevent childhood obesity globally".
Food is traded both globally and locally. Yet even when consumers can purchase food from all over the world, local, "traditional" markets often provide the least expensive, freshest products with the shortest supply chains. And that is why local markets are ubiquitous and essential for feeding consumers of all types.
On Tuesday, June 8 join "COVID Recovery: Why investments in nutrition cannot wait", a session during the WHO Food Systems Summit Dialogues: Health Talks discussing the impact of the pandemic and the urgency to prioritize nutrition in COVID-19 recovery policy.
This webinar will discuss the findings of a total of 533 Informal Urban Markets Vendor 'snapshot' surveys, as well as of the 35 interviews and 21 focus groups with a range of urban food systems stakeholders from vendors to local and national government policy makers, and SMEs. These findings are part of a wider rapid assessment, conducted between late 2020 and early 2021, in the aforementioned 6 cities, and which also comprised activities, such as, desktop research and satellite imagery.
Join us for USAID Feed the Future’s EatSafe Interview Cruncher hosted by GAIN examining the important questions of how to close the knowledge gap between food safety and nutrition and how to elevate food safety in global development conversations.
