Other content with the tag "Access to markets".

December 13, 2023

AgriFoodTech start-ups are coming to be seen as relevant players in the debate around and reality of the transformation of 

November 22, 2023

The growing number of children who are obese or overweight in certain countries or geographical areas is a fact, as evidenced by the continuous stu

November 22, 2023

The growing concern for health is currently a global trend, so promoting healthy products is an opportunity that companies can exploit to different

November 22, 2023

Realfooders have positioned themselves in social networks such as Instagram by posting photographs of recipes, advises, habits and nutritional beha

November 22, 2023

The food environment in which people exercise food choices significantly impacts their dietary patterns.

November 14, 2023

This year’s report introduces true cost accounting (TCA) as an approach to uncovering the hidden impacts of our agrifood systems on the environment

July 31, 2023

Short food supply chains play a vital role in connecting local producers with consumers, promoting sustainability, supporting local eco

May 10, 2023

This paper discusses the critical importance of expanding ‘food systems infrastructure’ as a necessary pre-condition for improving access to health

March 15, 2023

Sustainable Development Goal 14.b calls for providing ‘access for small-scale fishers to marine resources and markets’ by 2030.

March 14, 2023

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value

How Perspectives on Food Safety of Vendors and Consumers Translate into Food-Choice Behaviors in 6 African and Asian Countries
January 18, 2023

Consumption of unsafe foods increases morbidity and mortality and is currently an issue, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

January 17, 2023

Reducing post-harvest loss is one promising way to make nutritious foods more available, accessible, and affordable - all while improving the envir

Small pelagic fish supply abundant and affordable micronutrients to low- and middle-income countries
December 2, 2022

Fish is expected to contribute to healthy diets where it is affordable and accessible but the cost and availability of nutrient-rich foods, includi

The Role of Aquatic Foods in Sustainable Healthy Diets
November 28, 2022

Diverse aquatic foods – including animals, plants and microorganisms farmed in and harvested from water, as well as cell- and plant-based foods eme

November 28, 2022

In Ethiopia, undernutrition remains a critical issue with current national estimates suggesting that the prevalence of stunting (36.8%), underweigh

November 27, 2022

The initiative “Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems for Ghanaian SMEs: leveraging small and medium enterprises to improve nutrition” i

November 23, 2022

The significance of industrial processing, and in particular techniques and ingredients developed or created by modern food science and technology,

November 23, 2022

UNICEF recognizes the importance of engaging business to achieve nutrition results for children.

November 23, 2022

Food affordability is an important determinant of food choice and access, driving dietary patterns, nutrition status and overall health and environ

November 21, 2022

It is estimated that approximately 70% of children in India, between the ages of 6 months and 59 months are anemic.

November 17, 2022

Aquatic food has a vital role to play in creating a global food system that supports a healthy human population on a healthy planet, yet it has bee

Concerns over Access to Healthy and Sustainable Food-Grains of Truth Report
November 17, 2022

For the second year, EAT and

November 15, 2022

Plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products are increasing in popularity and have been identified as having an important role in the much-n

Risky Seafood Business
November 15, 2022

In recent years, the role of seafood or the ‘blue food’ as alternative animal protein has also been investigated, amid concerns over the impacts of

What's in Store for the Planet: The Impact of the UK Shopping Basket on Climate and Nature-2022
November 15, 2022

The global food system is responsible for more than 30% of total climate change emissions and 60% of biodiversity loss, and retailers – the bridge

Driven to Waste: Global Food Loss on Farms
September 20, 2022

Driven to Waste: Global Food Loss on Farms, a report from WWF and Tesco, reveals an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food goes unea

August 26, 2022

Foodborne diseases are a significant cause of illness in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

August 26, 2022

Urban public food procurement can address malnutrition and improve the beneficiary experience at public institutions whilst reshaping food systems

August 17, 2022

Processed foods tend to have a bad reputation.

August 15, 2022

Using a theory of change (TOC; a simplified definition of how and why an intervention is expected to work) or a programme impact pathway (PIP; a mo

August 15, 2022

Biofortification of staple crops has the potential to contribute to reducing micronutrient deficiencies by increasing micronutrient intakes.

August 15, 2022

The Commercialisation of Biofortified Crop (CBC) programme, jointly led by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and HarvestPlus, aims

August 12, 2022

Increased rural-urban migration has seen the world’s diet also becoming more ‘urbanised’, with meals cooked at home increasingly replaced b

May 22, 2022

Though this paper has restricted access, it offers an innovative and effective methodology to improve the level

May 22, 2022

This peer reviewed paper from Feed the Future’s EatSafe consortium, led by GAIN, summarises prior research on t

May 22, 2022

This peer reviewed publication explores the inextricable link of food safety and nutrition.

May 16, 2022

The Framework for action on food sa

May 16, 2022

This peer reviewed article explores the presence and impacts of foodborne diseases in low- and middle-income co

May 16, 2022

WHO’s Food Safety Community of Practice (COP) is a peer-to-peer online forum for global professionals working o

October 22, 2021

This report from EAT and GlobeScan looks at the opinions of over 30,000 consumers in 31 markets around the world about their definition of good, he

August 23, 2021
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This study is the result of a landscape analysis undertaken by Action Against Hunger UK for the Global Al

August 3, 2021

In this report by the Rockefeller Foundation, the true cost of the U.S. food system is analysed and calculated.

June 23, 2021

Endeva created this comprehensive guide to inform NGOs and businesses of the opportunity within Inclusive Business (IB) models to create sustainabl

June 17, 2021

The Farmlink Project is a college student led nonprofit that recovers excess farmer produce and delivers it to communities in need.

June 11, 2021

The process of transporting food from rural, agricultural landscapes to consumers can be long and complex.

June 11, 2021

This study was in rural Bangladesh tested the cost effectiveness of a home micronutrient powder food fortification programme for children under the

June 9, 2021

This piece looks at how COVID-19 has impacted the food system in the U.K., exacerbating existing challenges and creating new ones in the way that p

April 13, 2021

The 2021 edition of this flagship report from IFPRI "looks at the critical lessons learned and promising opportunities for transforming our food sy

December 18, 2020

This is an incredibly practical resource, written collaboratively to bring real-life experience and lessons from local food systems actors from Asi

September 23, 2020

This article from SUN Business Network (SBN) provides a snapshot of how nutritious food SMEs have been impacted by COVID-19, and what challenges, o

August 25, 2020

Three rounds of panel data from smallholders in Kenya showed a 40% increase in household income.

August 25, 2020

Lack of accountability and follow up project planning is an issue that can limit many PPEs.

August 24, 2020

This report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on th

August 24, 2020

This rapid response report provides pragmatic advice to all partners – civil society, global business, SMEs and governments.

July 17, 2020

The theme of the 2020 report from the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) is Nutrition in a digital world. The articles, research a

July 9, 2020

These manuals have been prepared for those interested in producing and supplying complementary foods.

March 24, 2020

In this paper, the authors examine "how different aspects of trade can constrain or enable governments’ ability to implement food system-level acti

January 21, 2020

In 2018, GAIN and HarvestPlus created a partnership with the shared ambition to expand coverage of biofortified nutrient dense foods to at least 20

December 6, 2019

In this research paper, the authors build on nutrition sensitive value chain frameworks and then present an implementation case study that seeks to

July 11, 2019

The 44th edition of the UNSCN Nutrition - Food environments: Where people meet the food system - looks at how food environments influence

July 2, 2019

This paper by IDH – Sustainable Trade Initiative gives extensive evidence on how to deliver models that provide service delivery to smallholder far

July 2, 2019

There are relatively few peer review articles looking at risk assessment for entrepreneurs in the healthy food industry.

July 2, 2019

This paper provides a business case for investing in India.

July 2, 2019

Restricted access article looking at how innovation is essential to meeting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

June 18, 2019

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Marketplace for Nutritious Foods program sparks private sector production and marketing of nutritious

June 18, 2019

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Marketplace for Nutritious Foods program sparks private sector production and marketing of nutritious

June 18, 2019

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Marketplace for Nutritious Foods program sparks private sector production and marketing of nutritious

June 18, 2019

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Marketplace for Nutritious Foods program sparks private sector production and marketing of nutritious

June 18, 2019

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s Marketplace for Nutritious Foods program sparks private sector production and marketing of nutritious

June 13, 2019

Biofortification is "the process of increasing the density of vitamins and minerals in a crop through conventional plant breeding or agronomic prac

June 7, 2019

The International Agri-Food Network brings together thousands of international companies and national associations under the umbrella of fourteen i

June 7, 2019

The Center for Strategic and International studies have looked at the impact of Feed the Future Investments in Guatemala.

June 7, 2019

The Center for Strategic and International studies have looked at the impact of Feed the Future Investments in Bangladesh.

June 7, 2019

Partnerships for Forests provides financial and technical assistant to help partners do business differently when it comes to land use and preventi

June 6, 2019

The growing power of supermarkets comes at a cost.

May 28, 2019

This public private partnership in Nigeria demonstrates what can be done to improve crop safety and reduce the non beneficial impacts of toxic crop

May 28, 2019

Peer review article in Hidden Hunger: Malnutrition and the First 1,000 Days of Life: Causes, Consequences and Solutions.

May 28, 2019

Restricted access paper looking at the role for public private partnerships in making agriculture value chains work for smallholder farmers, based

May 24, 2019

The Committee on World Food Security is a collaboration of international agencies, civil society, and the private sector focusing on policy issues

May 24, 2019

This webinar goes hand in hand with a report by Ipsos,

Innovation in large-scale nutrition surveys report
May 24, 2019

Partnership between Ipsos – a social market and research company, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

men farming
May 24, 2019

Expanding and replicating successful nutrition programmes can be challenging –  innovation hugely depends on the types of partners and the roles of

May 24, 2019

Restricted access article focusing on the value of networks and collaborations for business in bottom of the pyramid markets.

April 29, 2019

Discussion Paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute giving an overview of market failures limiting smallholder involvement in supp

April 29, 2019

An academic paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute looking at expectations that drive formal public private partnerships in agri

April 29, 2019

This study of agricultural PPPs in Ghana, Malawi, and Kenya calls for governments, donors, and companies to ensure greater participation from small

close up wheat
April 28, 2019

Case studies embedded in local political economy, covering: dairy value chains in Afghanistan, milk value chains in Bangladesh, flour fortification

April 25, 2019

FAO and the Government of Switzerland launched a competition to fund winning innovations which contribute to the global effort to reach Zero Hunger

April 24, 2019

Chapter 7 of the FAO’s 2013 State of Food and Agriculture: Food Systems for Better Nutrition, provides a helpful overview of the challenges and opp

April 22, 2019

Briefing by Jeffrey Sachs et al on how to maximize public private partnerships and combine public finance regulation with private market participat

April 21, 2019

Two-page briefing by the FAO on a tool to help agriculture become more sustainable and empower smallholders.

April 21, 2019

Working paper by Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) looking at how corporate social responsibility and supply agree

April 19, 2019

Report from a workshop on collaborative learning at the Institute of Development Studies in 2017, Brighton, U.K.

April 19, 2019

This report by the European Union addresses challenges of implementing country cooperation frameworks that fall under the auspices of the New Allia

April 19, 2019

This report summarizes the findings of a workshop for representatives of the Tanzanian government, development partners, civil society, and private

April 19, 2019

This 21-page briefing by Society Works summarizes information on 152 social entrepreneurs working on food production, manufacturing, distribution,

April 19, 2019

Public-Private Partnership Lab: Food and Water is a four-year action research and joint learning initiative to explore the effectiveness of PPPs.

truck transporting wheat bales
April 19, 2019

Presentation by Aniko Juhasz, Director, Research Institute of Agricultural Economics linked to the European Commission conference: Harnessing Resea

April 19, 2019

This briefing addresses the distinct roles that each partner can play in promoting nutrition under the Comprehensive African Agricultural Developme

April 19, 2019

This 2015 report by the Asian Development Bank does not directly look at global food supply chains but has valuable and wide-reaching lessons.

April 19, 2019

Covers a checklist for formal public private partnerships spanning: rationale, design, implementation, sustainability, and the roles for brokers at

April 19, 2019

A detailed review by the FAO on public private partnerships in agribusiness.

April 19, 2019

A comprehensive and helpful overview of farmer organizations, including a chapter on lessons for success. This review was commissioned by the U.K.

April 19, 2019

Presentation by the BoP Innovation Centre – an independent foundation created to deliver a one-stop shop for business, investors, and advisors with

April 10, 2019

This paper looks at three pillars through which the private sector may directly or indir

April 4, 2019

This report analyses fourteen projects in low and middle income countries working on reducing food loss and waste in food systems.

April 4, 2019

SNV is a team of advisers that work with business, governments, and implementing agencies.

April 4, 2019

The global food fortification ingredients market was valued at US$ 30.50 Bn in 2016, and is expected to reach US$ 100.84 Bn by 2025.