The Danish Minister of Environment and Food, Esben Lunde Larsen, invited leading, international experts, gastronomy front runners, influencers, and decisions makers to attend the World Food Summit in Copenhagen.
This event advocated for policy makers, industries, government agencies, development partners, and interested stakeholders to take the next step towards improving the food fortification programme and its coverage.
Most of the world of the world’s population now lives in large conurbations. The characteristics of these metropolitan areas are that they are ethnically and socially diverse and a high proportion of food is consumed outside the home or ready prepared.
The EAT Forum gathered 500 of the brightest minds from science, politics, business and civil society in Stockholm to discus progress on transforming the food system to solve the interconnected challenges of climate, sustainable development and health.
GAIN is hosting the event ‘How to Strengthen the Quality of Engagement between Governments and Businesses to Improve the Quality of Diets?’ on Monday, 5 June 2017.
GAIN together with the Government of the Netherlands and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Bangladesh, organized the official World Health Assembly 70 side event 'Embodying the future: How to improve the nutrition status of adolescents?'.
GAIN, together with the WHO, co-hosted the World Health Assembly side event titled ‘Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!) A Never Before Moment for countries to ACT NOW’, on Thursday, 25 May.
GAIN, together with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Iodine Global Network (IGN), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), and Effective Altruism Geneva organize the event ‘Towards the Elimination of Iodine Deficiency by 2020’.
In partnership with the Government of the Republic of South Africa, the World Economic Forum on Africa was held in Durban, South Africa, on 3-5 May 2017. The meeting convened regional and global leaders from business, government, and civil society to agree priorities that will help Africa achieve inclusive growth.
The Government of Kazakhstan, USAID, and GAIN co-hosted the first Central Asia regional summit on micronutrient fortification, "Fortify our Future: Regional summit for improving the health of women and children through flour fortification" from 3-4 April in Almaty, Kazakhstan.