Food Safety
Achieving optimal health and nutrition requires people to be both well-nourished and protected from foodborne hazards. We have long recognised the importance of integrating food safety into our work.
Cross Cutting Themes
Cross-cutting themes are co-benefits of work that we do with the primary aim of healthier diets for all.
These cross-cutting themes are often co-benefits of work that we do with the primary aim of improving nutrition, with food safety an obvious example and (food systems) resilience another. Two further prioritised cross-cutting themes—environment and gender—also have the potential to benefit from GAIN interventions, but they can also be seen as powerful contextual factors that could undo global and national progress in nutrition and food security. The last two prioritised cross-cutting themes cast a spotlight on population groups who are typically under-represented in programmatic work even though they carry a heavy burden of malnutrition: people living in extreme poverty, and the young.
Consolidate and generate knowledge
Develop and test food safety
Generate evidence of intervention effectiveness
By highlighting these issues throughout our work, GAIN hopes to accelerate progress in the battle against malnutrition and to contribute to work on other sustainable development goals.
Gender
At the core of GAIN's mission to enhance healthier diets and food systems is a commitment to gender equality, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of gender, have equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities.
Environment
At GAIN we consider how our work to increase access to healthy diets for all intersects with several dimensions of environmental sustainability including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, water quality and scarcity, soil degradation and plastic waste.
Youth
We consider the specific needs and capacities of youth to foster their holistic development, empower them as agents of change, and contribute to building healthier and more sustainable food systems.
Reaching the poorest
We seek to intentionally, specifically, and equitably promote consumption of healthier diets for people experiencing poverty and related vulnerabilities.
Resilience
At GAIN, we view the resilience of food systems as the cornerstone to ensure access to nutritious and sustainable diets for all, especially for the most vulnerable.
Saul Morris
Director of Programme Services