The 2024 AKF Nutrition Innovation Challenge Pilots

One in three people worldwide is malnourished. Malnutrition undermines families’ futures by impairing growth, learning, and economic potential.

In 2024, AKF launched a Global Innovation Challenge, inviting all staff to submit ideas focused on tackling global malnutrition.

From aquatic (blue) foods to novel foods to food system approaches, 6 nutrition innovations advanced to the final stage of a six-month process and received seed funding for implementation.

The videos below, from Kenya, India, Madagascar, Pakistan, and Syria, showcase creative solutions that harness the power of food to help communities adopt healthy diets using local resources.

Team BABA, Aquatic Foods, Madagascar: Investigating dried green algae as an alternative or complementary source of protein to improve protein consumption among rural coastal communities in Analanjirovo region in Madagascar.

Team Urtica, Novel Foods, Syria: Exploring nettle wild plant to fortify everyday meals and improve household nutrition and dietary quality.

Team Spice, Novel Foods, Syria: Using cactus to fortify everyday meals and improve household nutrition.

Team NutriBoost Innovators, Novel Foods, Pakistan: Developing apricot-based formulations to improve micronutrient intake and prevent malnutrition targeting mothers and children.

Team Milletify, Novel Foods, India: Diversifying food plates of tribal farmer households of the Dangs by changing behavior patterns around millets.

Team Leshe Endelevue, System Levers, Kenya: Integrating sustainable agricultural practices and under-utilized food into local food supply and changing community behaviours.

To know more about the AKF Nutrition Innovation Challenge please click here.