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NICE Celebrates World Food Safety Day 2023 in Dinajpur, Bangladesh

by Jasia MehjabinBangladesh June 19, 2023June 27, 2023Comments are Disabled

Dinajpur, Bangladesh – In a remarkable celebration of World Food Safety Day 2023, the Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project along with Dinajpur Municipality rose awareness for nutritious and safe foods on 7 June 2023. With this year’s theme being “Food Standard Saves Lives”, NICE showcased its unwavering commitment to enhancing nutrition and health among …

NICE celebrating World Food Safety day 2023 in Rangpur, Bangladesh

by Jasia MehjabinBangladesh June 18, 2023June 27, 2023Comments are Disabled

A remarkable event to commemorate World Food Safety Day 2023 at the Rangpur City Corporation has been organized by the NICE project this 11th June 2023. Aligned with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme “Food Standard Saves Lives” the NICE team took on the important responsibility of distributing nutrition packages to the city’s residents, …

NICE social marketing campaign dubbed “Tuelimike” educates the community on safe and good nutrition in Bungoma and Busia.

by Annette WachiraKenya June 14, 2023June 17, 2023Comments are Disabled

Improving nutrition and health in secondary cities like Bungoma and Busia is a key goal of the NICE project. The project conducted a social marketing campaign called “Tuelimike” through activations in schools, clinics, markets and among small-scale farmers. The Tuelimike campaign, which translates to “Let us be Informed/Educated,” took place in Bungoma and Busia cities in Kenya …

NICE Campaign on Safe and Nutritious Food Production in the Cities of Dinajpur and Rangpur

by Jasia MehjabinBangladesh May 25, 2023June 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

The Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project has launched a social marketing campaign to promote production as well as consumption of safe, nutritious, and agroecologically produced foods in Dinajpur and Rangpur. This campaign was implemented by the NICE project in both cities as part of its demand creation strategy. The campaign aims to raise awareness …

Inspiring exchanges at the Food Policy Symposium at City, University of London

by Cornelia SpeichNews May 3, 2023May 3, 2023Comments are Disabled

Inspiring good practices, challenging ideas and a lot of food policy insights and potential ways forward toward food systems transformation have been shared and discussed by more than 200 stakeholders at the 2023 Food Policy Symposium at City, University of London end of Apr2023. The NICE team enjoyed being part of the symposium and gaining …

NICE at the 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference

by Cornelia SpeichNews April 19, 2023April 19, 2023Comments are Disabled

The NICE project was sharing its experiences with the modified FAO SHARP tool with a broad audience in the frame of the 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference held in Nairobi 21-24Mar2023. The respective presentation of Sophie van den Berg and Elizabeth Imbo can be found here: EAAC__240FarmResilience_withtext_21.03.23.pptx – Google Slides The respective abstract book also …

NICE Winter School

by Cornelia SpeichNews February 20, 2023March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

NICE country teams and representatives from all six NICE cities came together in Busia, Kenya, 11-18Feb2023, to exchange experiences and knowledge on urban food systems directly on the ground. Together with guests from Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi, all Kenya, as well as Bambilor, Senegal, success and bottlenecks, plans and visions of daily work in urban …

NICE in Nature Food

by Cornelia SpeichNews December 6, 2022March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

“Nutrition as a Driver and Outcome of Agroecology”; we are extremly honoured that our respective article has just been published in Nature Food. In this article, the NICE agroecology Research Team looked into the 13 principles of agroecology proposed by the high-level panel of experts on food security and nutrition and analyzed their connection with …

#WFD2022: New image film produced by the Kenyan NICE team

by Cornelia SpeichUncategorized November 2, 2022August 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Watch the NICE image film produced for World Food Day 2022: https://youtu.be/9ooc3wYcRJY

NICE Organizing a High-Level Roundtable on Nutrition Policies in Bangladesh

by Cornelia SpeichBangladesh, News October 24, 2022March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

On 22Oct2022 our NICE country team in Bangladesh organized a high-level roundtable on national and regional nutrition policies in Bangladesh, together with the local newspaper The Business Standard. Under the topic of Creating nutrition vital cities: Role of multisectoral platforms, national government representatives, UN representatives and NGO and private sector representatives emphasized the need for …