Giving Compass' Take:

• Food Tank talks with Lawrence Haddad who believes that worldwide nutrition cannot be achieved solely by nongovernmental organizations and development assistance programs and that governments must begin to exercise control over markets, regulation and businesses investing in the food sector to drive real changes towards ending malnutrition. 

• How can donors and organizations inspire and push policymakers and governments to make the proper changes? 

• Learn about how malnutrition is also a community health issue. 

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), talks about the urgency for nutrition advocacy in global food production. “There are thousands of choices when it comes to producing food—and thousands of outcomes that can result from that production—but only a small percentage of those outcomes are nutrition-promoting,” says Haddad.

GAIN launched in 2002 to tackle global malnutrition. “We’re really trying to improve the consumption of nutritious food for everybody, especially the most vulnerable,” says Haddad. “And we’re trying to do that because food—what people eat—is one of the leading risk factors for the development of disease, no matter what country you’re in.”

Read the full article on a global solution to malnutrition by Katherine Walla at Food Tank.