Bangladesh NutriStar: Nutrition Innovation Challenge in Bangladesh 2020

Bangladesh NutriStar: Nutrition Innovation Challenge in Bangladesh 2020

The SUN Business Network Bangladesh, hosted by the Ministry of Industries and co-convened by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and World Food Programme (WFP) is launching the first SUN Pitch Competition in Bangladesh called ‘NutriStars’ Bangladesh.

The SUN Pitch Competition aims to identify and develop a pipeline of nutrition-sensitive investments that can be linked to investors and technical service providers, leverage local and global strategic partnerships and improve the coordinating mechanism for private sector investment in nutrition.

The theme for the 2019/2020 SUN Pitch Competition is ‘Rethinking Nutrition Innovations’. Specifically, the SUN Pitch Competition is focusing on identifying innovative SMEs that can provide big, inspiring and disruptive investment solutions to the following food system innovation challenges:

1. Food Design Innovations – How can your business offer an innovative solution to develop or introduce new, affordable and nutritious food products for local vulnerable populations?
2. Post-Harvest Loss Reduction Innovations – How can your business offer an innovative solution to reduce post-harvest losses along the supply chain and ensure the retention of nutrients in nutritious food?

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1. Market Connectivity Innovations – How can your business offer an innovative solution to improve the linkage between the supply, demand and distribution of affordable nutritious foods to especially remote populations?
2. Food Safety Innovations – How can your business offer an innovative solution to ensure food safety along the supply chain to improve the local consumption of safe and nutritious food?