Food and Nutrition

Food and Nutrition's Impact on Poverty Alleviation

Five Reasons Why We Need Fair Food Systems for Future Food Security.

Fairtrade’s recently launched sustainable agriculture policy calls for resilient food systems built on agroecology – that is, the application of environmentally, economically and socially responsible principles to farming. Here are five reasons why our current food and farming policies need a complete reset – and how we can do it.
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Global Summit 2023 – Day 2 – Workshop 1

This insights paper captures the key takeaways from a skills-based session, “Partnerships for Systemic Change: Practical Approaches in Food Systems”, where global experts in
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Food Technology Can Feed the World, So Says Social Impact Pioneer Donna Rosa

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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How can business partnerships tackle the hidden hunger through access to essential nutrients?

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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WEF Meeting 2023 Discussing Food Fortification

Millers Change the Game for Food Fortification

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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Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru

Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru

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, Explain Maniza and Alok

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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Stronger Together: How the Food Fortification Ecosystem Can Fight Malnutrition

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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Uncovering the true cost of stunting to the private sector

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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Food Fortification Workshop Summary

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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Driving social impact for women in the RMG industry in Bangladesh

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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GS2021 – Webinar 7

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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Two Unusual Low-Cost Chicken Feed Options for Some of the World’s Poorest Entrepreneurs

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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A sustainable equitable food system needs to be nourished at the source

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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Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods for all

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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Food Fortification – An Enriching Opportunity

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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Aligning Business Reporting on Nutrition

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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Michelle Thompson

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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How Can We Produce Enough Protein to Feed 10 Billion People?

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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Helping Refugees Move From Crisis To Resilience and Self-Reliance

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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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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