GAIN Business Alliance Global Forum – Report

“Growing GAIN” addressed how to deliver inclusive and sustainable business solutions that improve nutrition, and create a deeper understanding on what the main investment hurdles and constraints are in fighting malnutrition at the global and local level. The 2nd Forum of the GAIN Business Alliance was co-organized with the World Bank Institute (WBI), and brought together over 100 business leaders from across the food supply chain, together with experts from European Union and international agencies, academia and government. The Forum’s theme of growing GAIN — growing understanding of the malnutrition problem, growing the market for business to invest, growing cross-sector partnerships and resources targeting innovative and sustainable solutions — provided a focus for the discussions. The meeting was addressed by the Chair of the Development Committee of the European Parliament, and its conclusions reported at a GAIN Board lunch with the EU Commissioner for Development Louis Michel on the 8th May. In a welcome letter sent to participants, President Bill Clinton said “the great challenge of this century is to move the world along the path of positive interdependence – – and ensuring adequate nutrition for all people, regardless of geography, is a crucial part of that.” Image source: Pierre Wachholder / gainhealth.org. > Continue.

Conference | Country: Belgium | Source: GAIN