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Connecting, informing, and enabling food security experts and practitioners to achieve a more food secure world.

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What's a nutrition investment? USAID's new nutrition-lens investing framework and tool helps define "nutrition investments", aiming to increase the volume and quality of investments that generate a nutrition impact: https://t.co/039VEwzYv8

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How can targeted nutrition financing lead to change across food and health systems? USAID designed a new nutrition-lens investing framework to help the impact investors, development partners, and Development Finance Institutions increase nutrition impact. https://t.co/039VEwAwkG

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How can investors increase the quality and volume of nutrition impact they generate? Check out USAID's new nutrition-lens investing framework to learn what constitutes a nutrition investment: https://t.co/039VEwzYv8

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How can we tackle the world’s largest food crisis & climate change? Tune in tomorrow to our webinar on August 13 at 9am ET as we learn about approaches to building sustainable food systems from policy makers, academics, and private sector investors https://t.co/xR4HHP0nxl

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The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F), a groundbreaking fund supported by @USAID @gainalliance @incofin @swissdevcoop, is transforming nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Targeted investments in SMEs will increase access to healthy foods for millions. https://t.co/MfpUgkYH94

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Nutrition financing is 🔑 to healthier futures. The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility combines public & private funds to invest in nutrition-focused SMEs, ensuring nutritious food reaches those in need @gainalliance @incofin @swissdevcoop https://t.co/MfpUgkY9jw

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We're making strides in #NutritionFinancing with @gainalliance @incofin @swissdevcoop. By addressing financial & technical barriers, the Nutritious Foods Financing Facility enables #SMEs to provide affordable, nutritious foods across Sub-Saharan Africa. https://t.co/MfpUgkY9jw

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#ICYMI: Catch up on the latest USAID's Kitchen Sink podcast, which celebrates the work of 3 @USAID activities that work to increase food safety all over the globe https://t.co/BluS29lomI

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Meet Dr. Nkem Torimiro, who turned her dream of saving lives into a groundbreaking career in microbiology. From Lagos to leading innovations in Nigeria, her work on nanotech, antimicrobial resistance, and food safety is making a global impact: https://t.co/Mjo8iBxMoz

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For 5+ years, the #BD4FS program has transformed food safety practices for growing food businesses in Senegal, Nepal, & Ethiopia. Key lessons: partner w/ motivated businesses, empower women entrepreneurs, and foster public-private cooperation. Learn more: https://t.co/jjhFWg1EKh

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Unsafe food causes 600M illnesses & 420K deaths annually worldwide, with children under 5 at high risk. A multisectoral approach integrating food safety, nutrition, & water, sanitation, and hygiene is essential to tackle this challenge: https://t.co/jeqvNgchUW

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Good policy is 🔑 to improving food safety, but they require support from all levels of government. Learn more about how countries like Pakistan are enforcing and monitoring food safety and quality standards: https://t.co/lBpWagg3ut

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Despite innovations in the types and sizes of cold storage solutions, its adoption by smallholder farmers in the Global South has been limited. Learn how @FeedtheFuture is scaling solutions for fruits & vegetable cold storage in Bangladesh: https://t.co/pAZl5fHQkf

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Our ability to achieve nutrition & other development targets depends on food safety, which is key to food security & nutrition in a world where more than 800 million people already go to bed hungry every night. Learn more about our food safety work: https://t.co/lXaYJIZyiP

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It's Food Safety month on Agrilinks! #FeedTheFuture’s food safety partners work to build consumer demand, empower women & youth, build sustainable food safety capacity, improve finance for food safety & take a food systems approach to food safety. https://t.co/25AHB8TJMF

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According to the UN, over 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity by 2025. Learn more about different irrigation techniques that can help tackle water scarcity in the agriculture sector: https://t.co/QVVDtz4i7D

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There’s a growing set of evidence from USAID on cost-effectiveness in agricultural production that can help drive resources toward approaches that benefit & empower women in agricultural settings. Join us for a webinar April 10 at 8 a.m. EDT to learn more! https://t.co/qO1rJ1WbWX

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What works to improve women farmers’ income? Join us for a webinar April 10 at 8 a.m. EDT to explore best practices for the design and implementation of gender-equitable and transformative agriculture programs https://t.co/qO1rJ1WbWX

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The gap in land productivity between female- & male-managed farms of the same size is 24 percent. Join us for a webinar April 10 at 8 a.m. EDT to explore impact evidence on what types of programming has the greatest impact on women’s agricultural income ♀️ https://t.co/qO1rJ1WbWX

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The 17th International Food Safety Conference emphasized the importance of proactive food safety efforts, the power of global collaboration, & the importance of food safety culture in sustainable change. Hear from @FoodSafetyIL researchers in attendance: https://t.co/J8Vb3pLmo2