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The Global Alliance for Nutrition, Eat Well Global and the SUN Business Network have developed a Nutrition at Work handbook to support employers and businesses looking to provide healthy meals and snacks to their employees. The Nutrition at Work handbook provides step-by-step guidance to help employers get started.
At the start of the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, as designated by the UN General Assembly, The Nature’s Pride Foundation (NPF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) announce a new partnership, which aims to improve health by promoting better nutrition of workers in the fruit and vegetable sector.
Natureâs Pride Foundation and GAIN join forces to put workforce nutrition into the spotlight
At the start of the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables, as designated by the UN General Assembly, The Natureâs Pride Foundation (NPF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) announce a new partnership today, which aims to improve health by promoting better nutrition of workers in the fruit and vegetable sector.
The partnership involves multiple tiers. One includes translating GAINâs Nutrition at Work Handbook into four languages and then making it publicly available. The partnership will also promote better nutrition in the fruit and vegetable sector through a series of webinars and articles. Finally, Natureâs Pride will roll out workforce nutrition programmes with growers in Peru and South Africa.
Access to fortified foods for infants and young children can be difficult, especially for low-income families. Having worked in different civil society organisations, I see how powerful the partnerships the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has with the market-based actors. Through public-private engagements, we work to increase the access to and create the demand for nutritious food for caregivers to give to their children. Placing extra attention on affordability makes my work extra meaningful.
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Food fortification is adding vitamins and minerals to foods to prevent nutritional deficiencies. The nutrients regularly used in fortification prevent diseases, strengthen immune systems, and improve productivity and cognitive development.
In Ethiopia, recently the standards to fortify wheat flour and edible oil were endorsed, while the salt iodization standard was already developed earlier.
Wheat flour for example is primarily fortified to prevent nutritional anaemia, prevent birth defects of the brain and spine, increase productivity and improve economic progress.
In 2015, the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals; fortifying commonly eaten foods is a step toward addressing these.
Fortification is successful because it makes frequently eaten foods more nutritious without relying on consumers to change their habits.
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