Month: March 2016

House of commons

Global Panel Event at the House of Commons, London

16th March 2016
Posted in:

Thank you to everyone who took part. View the photo gallery.

Aln2

African Leaders for Nutrition meeting in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

15th March 2016
Posted in:

15 March 2016, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Colleagues from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), and the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GloPan) discuss African Leaders for Nutrition Initiative at the African Development Bank’s headquarters.

22672197183 4bec9e51e4 h

African Leaders for Nutrition

11th March 2016
Posted in:

African Leaders for Nutrition launch: Lusaka, May 2016

10665294293 22d8823252 k

What can agriculture do for nutrition?

11th March 2016
Posted in:

The Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) project seeks to answer this question. Managing Director Mr Simbarashe Sibanda explains how the project aims at bringing together various actors in agriculture, nutrition and health – which stand at the nexus of successful agriculture-nutrition interventions.

8636098287 47643a7a32 k 1

Transformation of food systems and urbanisation

10th March 2016
Posted in:

On the occasion of the Panel’s meeting at the House of Commons with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agriculture & Food for Development (16 March 2016) for a conversation around healthy diets & nutrition in the context of uncertainty, Ugo Gentilini, a senior economist with the Social Protection and Labor Global Practice at the World Bank, comments on trends in food systems and urbanisation, a key driver of future dietary change which the Foresight project is investigating.

Fpv cover image2

Protecting national nutrition security in the face of food price volatility

10th March 2016
Posted in:

The Global Panel’s new policy brief “Managing Food Price Volatility: Policy Options to Support Healthy Diets and Nutrition in the Context of Uncertainty” identifies policy interventions that can anticipate and mitigate the negative dietary and nutritional outcomes of price volatility and market uncertainty.