Lawrence Haddad

Jul 10, 2024 | devex.com | Brieuc Pont |Lawrence Haddad

Nutrition is the foundation of our future. In the lead-up to the Nutrition for Growth summit next March, it's time for governments, philanthropies, civil society, and investors to take the issue much more seriously. Do you think being well-fed is only about having a full stomach? It’s not.

Dec 23, 2023 | foodtank.com | Lawrence Haddad |Jessica Fanzo |Kate Schneider |Mario Herrero

1 Articles0 Comments Dr Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director of The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and winner of the 2018 World Food Prize. Jessica Fanzo is a Professor of Climate and Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative at the Columbia Climate School. Dr. Kate Schneider is a research scholar at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Dec 19, 2023 | foodtank.com | Lawrence Haddad |Jessica Fanzo |Kate Schneider |Mario Herrero

Last week, COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, signaled its intent to bring food systems into future COP negotiations. Until now, fixing food systems had hardly been on the environmental agenda, with most attention going to the energy sector. Yet there is a clear consensus that food systems are badly affected by extreme weather events and offer a solution for our climate crisis. They produce around 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Dec 7, 2023 | foodtank.com | Lawrence Haddad

In his poem, The Theologian’s Tale, the 19th century American poet Henry Wordsworth Longfellow popularized the second part of the title of this op-ed: “ships that pass in the night speak to each other in passing…only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence.” With neither climate nor nutrition action scaling up fast enough, we cannot afford any more darkness and silence. We need light and engagement.

Oct 24, 2023 | allafrica.com | Lawrence Haddad

In my 40 years of working on malnutrition reduction around the world I have rarely seen more promising conditions for rapid malnutrition reduction than in Rwanda, right now. Consider the following. First, Rwanda's malnutrition levels, assessed using stunting rates of children under 5 is already declining at a very respectable rate of one percentage point per year. So, the infrastructure to reduce malnutrition is already in place.