Our Work
The Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab (FSN-IL) promotes food system innovations, novel technologies and best practices to support improved diet quality, nutrition and resilience. Our goal is to identify, test and help scale up promising nutrition-sensitive food system solutions from around the world. We offer funding through competitive grants and prizes and engage with stakeholders across the private and public sectors.
Research for Development
Generating evidence on innovative food technologies and practices that support improved nutrition
Capacity Building
Supporting individuals and organizations in Africa and South Asia and within the United States
Stakeholder Engagement
Collaborating across sectors to catalyze the uptake of food system innovations
Infographics & Fliers
Upcoming Events
National Consultation: Accelerating Food Systems Transformation in Malawi
The objective of the National Consultation is to build on the momentum generated from Malawi’s national pathways for food systems transformation in building a healthier, sustainable, and equitable food systems for a better Malawi.
Recent Events
Introduction to Circular Food Systems Workshop: South Asia
In collaboration with Thriving Solutions, participants in this workshop distinguished between linear and circular business models and learned the importance of adopting a circular food system approach.
Progress Towards Sustainable Healthy Food Systems in South Asia – A Regional Perspective Meeting
In collaboration with the U.S. National Academy of Science, this dialogue convened a dialogue of experts on sustainable and resilient food systems in South Asia.
Innovation Lab Council Regional Partners’ Meeting 2024 in Nepal
The Regional partners’ meeting, from April 22-24, 2024, will focus on identifying opportunities and strategies for evidence-based scaling of agri-food system innovations (individually and/or in bundles).
News
The Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab (FSN-IL) is pleased to announce that five applicants have received sub-awards for the RFA titled “Actions to Support Storage, Packaging, […]
The Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab[1] (FSN-IL) and the 1890 Universities Foundation are pleased to announce that six current students have been selected to lead a […]
Smallholder farmers, typically characterized by limited resources and production capacities, play a significant role in global food production. However, smallholder farmers in low-income countries face particular challenges that include low […]
As part of its commitment to build human and institutional capacity in South Asia and Southern Africa, the Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab (FSN-IL) traveled to […]
Understanding local food system challenges is an essential step in addressing the complex issues surrounding food production, packaging and processing, marketing, distribution, and consumption in any country. By clearly identifying […]
The Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab (FSN-IL), hosted by the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal National Planning […]
At the United Nations Food Systems Summit, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States plans to commit $5 billion over five years to Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s […]
The Nutrition Innovation Lab, led by Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition, spent over a decade from 2010-2021 pursuing rigorous research and building human and institutional capacity to advance nutrition […]
Three billion people—a third of the planet’s population—can’t afford a healthy diet. This stark number is what drives Patrick Webb, the Alexander McFarlane Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School […]