Food and Nutrition

Food and Nutrition's Impact on Poverty Alleviation

Donna’s high-flying career in food technology and nutritional science would have been enough for most of us. Instead, Donna then switched to helping entrepreneurs in emerging markets be more successful and scale their business. If nothing else this conversation is an inspiring journey revealing that a combination of science, technology, and business expertise can create positive social impact in the world.
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Hosted with Bayer Interviewees: Daniella Foster, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Public Affairs, Science and Sustainability, Consumer Health Division, Bayer Minaud Dacius,
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Davos event calls on private and public sector actors to support, empower and reward millers who fortify commonly consumed staple foods with essential micronutrients
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Hear from Social Impact Pioneer Aled Jones. Aled is an eighth-generation farmer and the President of the National Farmers Union Cymru – the leading agricultural organisation that represents and champions all farmers and growers in Wales.
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Malnutrition is a business issue. The link between malnutrition and poverty might be an obvious one. The links between malnutrition and business are perhaps less so. During this conversation we are going to deep dive into both, whilst looking at the intersections between nutrition, climate change, conflict and communicable disease.
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What do the World Food Programme, BASF, Royal DSM and Nigeria Flour Mills have in common? They all recognize the key role of small-scale and medium-sized millers to bring food fortification to scale, as part of national strategies to combat malnutrition.
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New research from The Power of Nutrition and Modern Scientist Global uncovers specifically the cost of stunting (children with low height for their age) to businesses’ bottom lines, as well as to workers’ incomes and the wider economy. 
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This workshop summary explores how the public sector, private sector (including both local millers and multinational companies), and development organisations can work together to scale staple food fortification. Read it to discover key recommendations based on a two-pronged plan of action for collective advocacy and investment. With TechnoServe, Accenture, and endeva.
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PVH Corp.’s nutrition partnership with The Power of Nutrition showcases how the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh is uniquely placed to help lifting the country from the burden of malnutrition and drive social impact for women and communities.
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Our webinar explored the “Business Partnerships to Strengthen Food Systems,” delving into the essential components of successful partnerships and the role of these collaborations
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Heifer International and Cargill have partnered to improve nutrition and livelihoods for 100 million people worldwide by 2030 through Hatching Hope, a program supporting sustainable smallholder poultry farming that is currently operating in India, Mexico, Kenya, Colombia and Cambodia.
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COVID-19 has exposed many of the vulnerabilities in our food system, one of which is just how reliant global supply chains are on people’s well-being at every step of the journey. The small-scale farmers in emerging markets who produce much of the world’s food ingredients, live in countries that face high rates of malnutrition, with many farming households unable to eat healthily themselves.
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Among the major inequities in the food system is the accessibility and affordability of nutritious and healthy foods across the world. Currently, around 26% of the global population experiences moderate to severe levels of food insecurity and lacks regular access to nutritious and healthy food.
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The Power of Nutrition partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to host an expert opinion roundtable on the role of the private sector to help create the multi-sectoral partnerships that will help drive forward large-scale food fortification. In this article, Mabel McKeown outlines some important themes that emerged from the session
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Business reporting on nutrition is limited even though one in three people in the world are poorly nourished and that business is providing the vast majority of our food. Additionally, there is a lack of alignment of business reporting on nutrition which makes it difficult to understand business impact and more importantly, to identify the changes that are needed and the practices that should be supported. This article calls for a more aligned reporting of businesses on nutrition using existing indicators.
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Why is nutrition still such a problem? What’s the impact of COVID-19 on these already frightening statistics? And what can we do about it? Michelle Thompson, Director, Head of Partnerships and Brands at The Power of Nutrition, examines and provides insights on each of these questions and more during our conversation.
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The world has a long path to travel to provide its growing population with the quantity and quality of protein needed, at affordable prices and in a manner that is both sustainable and optimal for health. A year of research and dialogue among stakeholders of the World Economic Forum has begun to suggest a four-part roadmap for making this future of protein a possibility.
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Introducing our new Challenge on Business and Refugees with support from Pearson and in partnership with UNHCR, Mercy Corps, Business Call to Action, Innovest Advisory and Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Challenge aims to strengthen the foundation for effective partnerships to improve refugees’ wellbeing and educational and livelihood opportunities so refugees can thrive, not just survive.
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Inclusive business as an idea has pushed the boundaries of what is possible and it offers the potential for scale in a way that philanthropy never could. So why are there so few examples that have truly scaled? What needs to happen to deliver on the promise of inclusive business?
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Good nutrition should be everybody’s business. That was the message that was echoed through the side meetings during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly. At the inaugural ‘Goalkeepers’ event, hosted by Bill and Melinda Gates in New York during UNGA week, the challenge was extended to us all to track…
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What do we mean by "Food and Nutrition"?

Understand how improved food and nutrition strategies can fight poverty by ensuring food security and promoting sustainable agricultural practices.

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