Common Formulation Mistakes That Delay Food Product Launches
Launching a new food product rarely fails because of a bad idea. It fails — or gets delayed for months — because of formulation problems that surface too late in the process. By the time a stability issue, a labeling conflict, or a scale-up failure shows up, it’s already expensive to fix. Here are the […]
What Pakistan’s Food Systems Transformation Agenda Means for Practitioners on the Ground
For most of its life, Pakistan’s food systems transformation agenda has lived in policy documents: a pathway submitted to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, a vision statement targeting 2030, a secretariat with a mandate on paper. Over 2024 and 2025, that started to change. A national multi-stakeholder alliance launched, a provincial resource center opened, […]
School Meal Programs as a Nutrition Policy Lever: A Case Study Approach
For decades, school meal programs were treated as a welfare add-on — a way to keep hungry children in their seats until the final bell. That framing has changed. Governments, donors, and multilateral agencies now design school feeding as deliberate nutrition policy infrastructure: a single delivery channel that can move the needle on stunting, school […]