Lawrence Haddad
Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). An evidence based champion of efforts to end malnutrition. Soon.
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Tackling food loss, waste could benefit Indonesia on many fronts: Experts
Companies yield $14 in return for every $1 invested in reducing food loss and waste, including by measuring waste and changing packaging.
Lawrence Haddad
Food loss=Nutrition loss=Environment loss.
More on tackling food loss and how it would benefit Indonesia on many fronts: @jakpost Jakarta Post. @GAINalliance @FOLUCoalition @WorldResources
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GAIN Working Paper Series 9 - Creating alliances and fostering innovations to reduce post-harvest loss of nutritious food
Based on an external assessment, this working paper summarises PLAN’s work in Nigeria (N-PLAN) and Indonesia (I-PLAN), impacts to date, and key learnings. The assessment indicated that PLAN has helped create influential networks, allowing diverse...
Lawrence Haddad
New @GAINalliance Working Paper: Creating alliances & fostering innovations to reduce post-harvest loss of nutritious food.
Why to do it, how to do it, & what does it result in? We share our learnings of the last 5 years from several countries.
@usaid
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How to Make Nutritious Food Affordable for the 1 Billion Africans
By Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko and me Dr Lawrence Haddad. This article was first featured in IPS.
How to Make Nutritious Food Affordable for the 1 Billion Africans
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 (IPS) - One of the biggest revelations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that people with pre-existing, diet-related conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, are more at risk of suffering severe forms of the...
Tomatoes - the world's most popular vegetable
In countries where the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) main offices are located, tomatoes vary in abundance - with the average supply from approximately one tenth of a medium-sized (60g) tomato per person per week in Ethiopia, to four...
GAIN: Nearly half of RMG workforce malnourished
Ensuring the access to nutritious and safe food for the workers can ensure utilization of full potential or productivity of workers
Lawrence Haddad
The #Bangladesh Ready Made Garment industry is described as lucrative by the @DhakaTribune, but our work shows it isn't for the factory workers -- mostly young women. Workforce nutrition programmes can help. @GAINalliance @CGF_Health
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Preventing postharvest fish losses key to proper nourishment of children
Inefficiencies in food production, which can be quantified in terms of global food loss and waste, have been a driver of malnutrition.
Lawrence Haddad
What we at @GAINalliance are doing to prevent postharvest fish losses that is so key to proper nourishment of children and all people at risk of malnutrition
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Tackling food loss & waste: SMEs saving nutritious food in Africa - SUN Business Network
With almost 690 million people without enough to eat, concerns about food loss and waste are an important part of the discussion to eliminating hunger.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: JakPost Up Close #17. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Theme: Reducing food loss and waste during COVID-19
Speakers:
1. Arifin Rudiyanto, National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Deputy Head of Maritime Affairs and Natural Resources
2. Lawrence Haddad, Director Executive, Global Alliance for...
How to Make Nutritious Food Affordable for the 1 Billion Africans
One of the biggest revelations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that people with pre-existing, diet-related conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, are more at risk of suffering seve
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How to Make Nutritious Food Affordable for all Africans.
Op ed with Amb. @JosefaSacko
@GAINalliance @FoodSystems @UN_CFS @WFPChief @WorldFoodPrize @FAODG @Agnes_Kalibata @CGIAR
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FSSAI mulling making fortification of edible oil with vitamins A, D mandatory
Fortification of edible oil will ensure that people belonging to different socio-economic strata have easy access to fortified edible oil across the country, FSSAI CEO Arun Singhal said.
Ishank Mikhail Gorla posted on LinkedIn
Edible oil fortification is one of the most efficient approaches to improve the health of a population. Essential micronutrients when added to edible oils...
Lawrence Haddad
1700 joined the webinar to hear the CEO of Food Safety & Standards Authority of India @fssai announce mandatory nationwide fortification of cooking oil & milk. Warm congratulations to the @gainindia team for their significant contribution to this.
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Lawrence Haddad
>1700 joined the webinar today to hear the CEO of the Food Safety & Standards Authority of India @fssai announce mandatory nationwide fortification of cooking oil. Big congratulations to the @gainindia team for their significant contribution to this.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition: Foresight 2.0 report launch in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). After registering, you will rece
In 2016, the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition published a Foresight report, ‘Food Systems and diets: Facing the challenges of the 21st Century’. The Global Panel subsequently commissioned a second Foresight report, which...
'It's a power struggle': UNICEF, WFP clash over wasting treatment reform
UNICEF and WFP are meant to be reforming global wasting treatment through the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting. But the two agencies fundamentally disagree on a way forward.
The pandemic will accelerate the evolution of our cities | Norman Foster
City centres are likely to see fewer cars in future, but that would have happened eventually without Covid-19, says architect Norman Foster
Lawrence Haddad
COVID 19 is a time machine. A lot of positive changes spurred on but at a terribly high cost for the most vulnerable.
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Blog 42: No Regrets, No Excuses. Helping policymakers make decisions to transform their food systems for healthy diets | Nutrition Connect
What do I need to change about my food system to improve diets and nutrition? That’s the question so many policymakers need an answer to, whether they are sitting in a low-income, largely rural country or a large city in a high-income nation. Food...
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“No Regrets” Food Systems Policies=No Excuses for Inaction.
47 big Reports (!) filtered to 41 food system policy actions that are plausible, feasible & have evidence behind them. Now they face a panel of expert practitioners 4 the acid test. @FoodSystems
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 3rd National Nutrition Symposium on 23rd & 24th September 2020. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 3rd National Nutrition Symposium on 23rd & 24th September 2020. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
UNGA75: Standing Together for Nutrition
Webinar discussion on COVID-19 and global malnutrition
Lawrence Haddad
Can't wait!
Don't miss the @GAINalliance & @MNForum event #UNGA75: Standing Together for Nutrition - #COVIDー19 & Global Malnutrition
📅 Thurs 24 Sep
⏱️ 14.30 CEST
🗣️ @l_haddad @unicefchief @YannickFoing @OsendpNutrition
Register 🗓️
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