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Twiga Foods is one of the most successful technology-enabled food distribution companies in Kenya. Founded in 2014, the company offers market-based solutions through an innovative business-to-business model. It connects suppliers with vendors operating micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), providing consumers with access to high-quality products and retail services. Over the past nine years, the company has grown tremendously. It

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) play a pivotal role in food systems worldwide. In many countries, the food industry has gone through a process of modernization and “supermarketization,” but small-scale retailers remain the primary source of fresh food for many households in low- and middle-income countries. Supporting these vendors is essential to ensure the availability, accessibility, and affordability of

Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption is extremely low in Ethiopia, even compared to other neighboring countries, leading to nutrient deficiencies and making its population vulnerable to a range of largely preventable diseases. High prices and low incomes help explain the low levels of FV consumption, but even the relatively wealthy eat less FV than the WHO recommends. This pattern suggests

Globally, suboptimal diets are the most important preventable risk factor for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). These diets account for 22 percent of all deaths and 15 percent of disability-adjusted life years among adults. The influential report from the EAT-Lancet Commission showed that people in most parts of the world eat too much unhealthy food, such as ultra-processed foods rich in sugars, fats,

Distinguished experts recently met with researchers from the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) in Dhaka to discuss foresight analysis. The meetings centered on a model for Bangladesh that uses a food systems perspective to explore potential trade-offs among a multitude of outcomes in the environmental, health and socio-economic domain. Developing “models,” or decision-support tools

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General has announced a global stocktaking meeting to be held in collaboration with the Rome-based UN agencies, the broader UN System, and partners from July 24 to 26, 2023, at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The 2023 UN Food Systems Stocktaking Moment will build on the momentum of the 2021 UN

After hosting the 4th Global Conference of the Sustainable Food Systems Programme (SFS) in May, Viet Nam’s Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) and the Secretariat of the UN SFS held a panel discussion on the country’s own food systems. At this event, representatives from local and international agencies discussed the prospects for implementing Viet Nam’s action plan for

The CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) and three partners in Ethiopia recently formalized their commitment to strengthen the implementation of food systems transformation for sustainable and healthy diets in Ethiopia. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), on behalf of SHiFT, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ethiopian