Month: September 2024
Why nutrition is foundational to development
Good nutrition is critical at the start of life from conception and during pregnancy. It paves the way for greater equality, and prosperity making nutrition foundational to development. This is the case made in the short brief Why Nutrition is Foundational to Development, which the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition…
Opinion piece in The Conversation by Lead Expert Group Chair, Prof Evan Fraser
An article by Prof Evan Fraser (Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor at the University of Guelph and Chair of the Lead Expert Group, Global Panel), supported by Dr Patrick Kormawa (Director, Food Security and Climate-Smart Agricultural Transformation, Office of the President of Sierra Leone) and Professor Sir John Beddington (Chair of the…
Sierra Leone Workshop on Strengthening Resilience in Food Systems Transformation
As part of the Global Panel’s project Strengthening Resilience in the Transformation of Food Systems, the President together with its partners conducted a two-day National Stakeholders’ Workshop in Freetown on September 12 and 13. It brought together diverse stakeholders from the agriculture, food systems and nutrition sectors to gather evidence and build consensus for a…
Global Panel side event at the African Food Systems Forum 2024
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition convened a side event Gender Responsive Approaches Driving Food Transformation with partners African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), CABI and the Global Solutions Initiative at the AFS Forum 2024 on September 2 in Kigali to highlight the critical need for gender-sensitive strategies to…