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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...

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...

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...