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More global leadership in food and nutrition is sorely needed – the US can help lead the way Share on London, United Kingdom, 23 February 2021 -  By Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Chair of Action Track 1 of the United Nations Food Systems Summit Until every child in the world goes to bed nourished properly, we cannot rest. Our food systems are moving us in the wrong directions: hunger levels are rising, undernutrition levels are at severe risk of rising, obesity is increasing, we are off track to meet climate targets, biodiversity i...

UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 - Public Forum Share on The ambition of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit is to launch a collective journey of transforming our food systems to give us the best possible chance of delivering on the 2030 agenda. Everyone has a role to play in this. Only by coming together and challenging one another we can spark new ideas and create meaningful impact.    Action Track 1 (AT1) strives to identify game-changing ideas to transform food systems and achieve the goal of ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all. This second Public Forum will focus on ou...

February 18, Rome - An unprecedented commitment to ensure that the voices and opinions of millions of the world's most remote rural people are at the...

Translate FSSD: FG, UN collaborate to tackle hunger, malnutrition with food systems Summit 2021 On By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Federal Government and the United Nations, UN, on a Thursday, disclosed collaboration to tackle hunger and malnutrition affecting Nigerians with Food Systems Summit Dialogue, FSSD,  in September 2021. This was made known via webinar for journalists on Nigeria National Food Systems Dialogue, FSSD, and the dialogue will hold in the six geopolitical zones of the country as part of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), and there will be ...

For all the obstacles and challenges we face in the weeks and months ahead, I start 2021 with a tremendous sense of optimism and hope that the growling in our stomachs and the yearning in our hearts can become the collective roar of defiance, of determination and of revolution to make this year better than last, and the future brighter than the past.  It starts with food, the most primal form of sustenance. It is food that determines the health and prospects of 1.35 billion Africans and counting. It is food that employs more than half a billion in African agriculture alone and offers the p...