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New Section Frontiers in Nutrition: Food Policy and Economics
Frontiers in Nutrition have recently launched a permanent section entitled Food Policy and Economics. This topic offers a channel for dissemination of INFORMAS-related results, particularly pertaining to economic analyses of food and nutrition issues, and the...
INFORMAS Satellite at ICO
An INFORMAS Satellite meeting was held on the day preceding the International Congress on Obesity (ICO) in Melbourne, Australia, on the 17th of October, 2022.` This was a long-overdue opportunity to network and share ideas face-to-face, which created a chance...
Idec and COLANSA launch Agenda for Action to promote transition in food systems in Brazil
On 25 March 2022, the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (Idec) and the Latin American and Caribbean Nutrition and Health Community of Practice (COLANSA) held a webinar on “Food Systems: debating advances and paths for Latin America.” The event marked the...
An International Pact on Monitoring for Accountability for Action on Food Systems
A Call to Action for Scientists and Food Monitoring Experts. In light of the global engagement around the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), it is clear that concrete commitments are required from solution clusters, action coalitions, and Member States, to...
1st Africa Food Environment Research Network (FERN) meeting held in November 2020
The Africa Food Environment Research Network (FERN) held an inaugural meeting via Zoom on 3-5 November, 2020.The meeting brought together the MEALS4NCDs project team and partners, INFORMAS Network Members, researchers in the African sub-region, as well as...
Progress, impacts and lessons learned: an evaluation of the INFORMAS initiative (2012–2020)
A study evaluating the implementation and impacts of INFORMAS from 2012 to 2020 has been published in the Annual Review of Public Health. Authors Gary Sacks, Janelle Kwon, Stefanie Vandevijvere, and Boyd Swinburn share key findings, lessons learned, and discuss future...
Sustainability to be incorporated into INFORMAS
Canada's International Development Research Centre has awarded a new grant to 1) incorporate sustainability indicators into the INFORMAS modules for measuring food environments, and 2) include municipal/city-level indicators in addition to monitoring national...
Food-EPI NZ 2020
Government has made virtually no progress on implementing healthy food policies in the last three years. The Expert Panel called for a national Food Systems and Nutrition Strategy, adequate income to make healthy food choices, mandatory food-related policies and an updated nutrition survey.
World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020
INFORMAS Symposium to be held at World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2020 31 March - 3 April 2020 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia, was cancelled due to COVID-19. We hope to resume in-person meetings as soon as...