Global Alliance For Improved Nutrition:
A recent report by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) calls for nutrition investments in the agri-food sector, which it argues, can reduce gender inequalities, increase productivity, and enhance business resilience.
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) eis a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.
- Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition.
- Working with governments, businesses, and civil society, GAIN aims at making healthier food choices more affordable, more available, and more desirable.
- GAIN’s purpose is to improve nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
- It mobilizes public-private partnerships and provides financial and technical support to deliver nutritious foods to those people most at risk of malnutrition.
- The organization also supports improved maternal and infant health by promoting breastfeeding and specialised products for infants over six months and young children.
- In addition, they partner with local businesses to improve the quality of food along agricultural value chains.
- GAIN-supported nutrition programs are reaching an estimated 667 million vulnerable people in more than 30 countries.
