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CGIAR INITIATIVES Sustainable Healthy Diets Primary Impact Area Nutrition, health & food security Related Impact Areas

The CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) combines high-quality nutritional and social science research capacity with development and policy partnerships to generate innovative food systems solutions that contribute to healthier, more sustainable dietary food choices and consumption of sustainable healthy diets. The Initiative works closely with national partners that are involved in the implementation

The CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) participated in the 4th global conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme “The Transformation We Need” from April 24-27, 2023 in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. The conference was co-organized by the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Programme and the United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub

Viet Nam recently hosted the 4th Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme, which brought together more than 200 participants from around the world to discuss the urgent challenge of transforming food systems. In the lead-up to the conference, Dr. Inge Brouwer and Mr. Mark Lundy, from the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT),

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require major dietary shifts, such as an increase in fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption. But global FV intake is far below the recommended amount, including in many low- and middle-income countries. To develop more effective interventions to improve consumption, we need to better understand the many factors that affect what, where, when, and how

Food price crises have become the new normal over the last two decades, but what are the effects of these high prices on children’s nutrition? More understanding is needed of how increasingly volatile food prices affect the nutrition of poor and food-insecure populations, and especially young children. In a recent analysis of 1.27 million children in 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs),

In March 2023, researchers and partners from the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) participated in the Nutritious Food Systems Grantee Convening in London. This three-day event brought together a network of more than 150 representatives from 70 projects funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development

The CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) is participating in the ANH Academy Week 2023. The 8th Annual ANH Academy Week program will feature online Learning Labs (training workshops) from June 19 to 21 and one day of in-person Learning Labs on June 26 in Lilongwe, Malawi. The Research Conference will run from June