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Access to Nutrition Initiative

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands • 26 Employees
Food & Beverages

The Global Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) is a groundbreaking initiative that evaluates the world's largest food and beverage manufacturers' policies and performance related to the world's most pressing nutrition challenges: obesity and undernutrition. Other single country Indexes are also in development.The Indexes are designed and published by the Access to Nutrition Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in The Netherlands. ATNF provides companies with a tool to benchmark performance on nutrition against others in their sector and provides stakeholders with impartial objective, consistent, in-depth information on companies' contributions to improving nutrition. The aim of ATNF is to encourage companies both to increase the number of healthier products and access to them, and also to responsibly exercise their influence on consumers' choice and behavior. The first Global Index was launched in 2013 and the second Global Index in January 2016. They gained a positive response from stakeholders, including food and beverage manufacturers, NGOs and investors. The Global Index will be published every other year.In addition to a Global Index, ATNF developed Spotlight Indexes that assess companies and the healthiness of their product portfolios in markets suffering from a high double burden of malnutrition. ATNF launched the first India Spotlight Index assessing India's largest Food and Beverage manufacturers in late 2016 and is preparing to publish the first US Spotlight Index in 2018. ATNF is governed by an international board consisting of eight directors. Funding is currently provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.