A webinar session in Spanish will take place on the 6th of August 2019 to walk users through the new features of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform.

An open access article on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform has been published in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 

A new round of participatory webinars will take place in March 2019 to walk users through the new features of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) held two webinars on the use of the FoodEx2 classification system in September and October 2018. FoodEx2 is a comprehensive food classification and description system aimed at covering the need to describe foods in a harmonised way. 

The FAO/WHO GIFT platform was presented to a wider audience in the UN Network for SUN webinar series in March 2018.

The Accelerated Reduction Effort on Anaemia (AREA) Community of Practice held a webinar in December 2017 on how the FAO/WHO GIFT platform may strengthen food-based approaches to reduce iron deficiency.

Another round of webinars will be conducted this year with the aim of presenting the new prototype of the FAO/WHO GIFT platform to potential end-users and collect their feedback. The webinars will also provide an update on the status of collection, collation and dissemination of dietary data.

FAO and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (the Friedman School) at Tufts University have entered into a collaboration aiming to increase our understanding of what foods and nutrients people are actually consuming around the world.

In November 2015, several webinars will be conducted to illustrate the FAO/WHO GIFT prototype platform to potential end users with the objective of developing this tool in a participatory manner.