37th Impact for Breakfast Geneva

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Poor diets are now the number one risk factor for morbidity and mortality globally. Scaling up proven nutrition interventions and improving diets by increasing access and affordability to nutrient-rich foods has substantial, positive health and development outcomes. However, in frontier markets, constraints – notably the lack of access to capital among agri-food SMEs – hinders the scale-up of promising approaches to bring nutritious, safe, and affordable foods to markets. 
This invitation only breakfast – part of UNDP’s SDG Finance Geneva Summit – will look at what is a nutritious food; provide an analysis of demand for financing among agri-food SMEs in Africa; review new nutrition investment metrics; and describe 2 new initiatives, The GAIN Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F) and the Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund. These platforms are helping to bridge the gap between investors and agri-food investees and improve nutrition. 

Speakers include: 

• Moderator: Judith Santbergen, AlphaMundi
• Greg S. Garrett, Director, Food Policy & Finance; Head of GAIN Switzerland
• Martijn Blom, Head Investor Relations, Hivos Impact Investments
• Stella Nordhagen. Research Advisor, GAIN