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What makes a successful nutrition collaboration? was one of the key questions during the World Public Health and Nutrition Congress 2024, June 10-13, in London. We as NICE were extremly honoured to contribute to the discussion by briefly presenting our NICE project in an oral parallel session and contributing to the discussion on the HOW …

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27May2024 was Health and Environment: A Time for Solutions Day at Geneva Health Forum accompanying the 77th World Health Assembly. The event’s call has been clear, we need to work interdisciplinary and in a mutlisectoral, mutli-stakeholder approach bringing all, CSO, authorities, science etc. on the same table. The momentum of such discussion is now key …

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What can cities learn from each other, when it comes to nutritious and climate-friendly solutions? A diverse group of local government stakeholders from the NICE cities (Dinajpur and Rangpur, Bangladesh, Bungoma and Busia, Kenya, and Rubavu and Rusizi, Rwanda) accompanied by the NICE country managers and some consortium staff went on a peer-learning field trip …

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Cities stand as pivotal players in shaping the trajectory of food systems across urban, peri-urban and rural landscapes, as well as in implementing the right to food and enabling healthy diets. This urban shift brings both opportunities and challenges to the forefront. The critical role of cities in addressing challenges within food systems and countering …

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NICE participated with 3 posters in the 2023 edition of ETH World Food Center’s Food Day 02Nov2023 in Zurich and appreciated the great opportunity for exchanging on ideas, insights and innovations with like-minded people and initiatives, and simple networking.

Secondary cities tend to be better linked with their surrounding foodshed than primate cities and act as important platforms to trade agricultural produce within their rural surrounding. With more and more people living in cities, urban food systems become increasingly important, and urban contexts and modern lifestyles also present opportunities to better reach consumers through …

Read more “NICE organizing a sponsored session “Cities Session: Nutrition Interventions to Close the Micronutrient Gap in Secondary Cities” at the 6th Micronutrient Forum Global Conference 16-20Oct2023 in The Hague”

Elizabeth Imbo, NICE Project Manager Kenya, had the honour to present the NICE project in a panel discussion on the cost of a healthy diet during the Africa Food Systems Forum 2023 in Dar Es Salaam.

The NICE project has been contributing to fostering knowledge exchange, innovation, and learning around interdisciplinary agriculture, nutrition, and health topics by two poster presentations at ANH2023 19-30Jun2023 in Lilongwe (and hybrid). Topics of NICE’s contributions were:

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 …

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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 …

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