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Food is more than fuel for the human body. It’s the heartbeat of our daily lives and the hidden driver of the future of work. This year’s World Food Day theme, “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future,” carries a deeply personal message. It reinforces that the type and quality of food…

Daily, more than 40,000 employees work at Pakistan’s Hattar Industrial Estate (HIE), a hub of over 300 industries producing textiles, ceramics, chemicals, and food. But behind the hum of machines lies a quieter issue: are the nutritional and employee wellbeing needs of the workers being met? A recent GAIN study across five industries in HIE…

They say, “the reward for good work is more work.” For the Bangladesh Workforce Nutrition Alliance (WNA), this couldn’t be truer. What began as a simple handshake in 2022 between the Department of Labour (DoL) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has blossomed into a national…

On the 23rd May, ahead of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the  Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) Global Lead for Workforce Nutrition Programme, Dr. Bärbel Weiligmann, along with The Consumer Goods Forum’s Health and Sustainability Director, Sharon Bligh, convened with key representatives from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the…

The number of adults living with diabetes has more than doubled over the span of 30 years, rising from 7% in 1990 to more than 14% in 2022. An estimated 828 million adults worldwide currently live with diabetes, and if trends continue, this is projected to reach 1.3 billion by 2050. Diabetes is a chronic disease…

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide, accounting for an alarming 74% of all deaths [1]. The burden is especially high in low- and middle-income countries, where nearly three-quarters of these deaths occur[2]. Diseases like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular conditions, and chronic respiratory illnesses are projected to increase by 17% in…

Since the launch of the Workforce Nutrition Alliance in 2019 by The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), there has been tremendous success in supporting organisations seeking to enhance employee health and wellbeing initiatives. We are proud that through advocacy and technical support, our workforce nutrition programmes have reached over 6 million…