Data-driven analytics for healthy diets: nourishing people, sustaining the planet

Nutrition remains a major challenge in numerous regions around the world. In all, 2.6 billion people across the world cannot afford a healthy diet while many areas suffer from hunger and malnutrition. And traditional analysis tools have proven slow and offer limited insights to support effective food policy action.

In response, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) collaborated with the Zero Hunger Lab at Tilburg University (ZHL), Capgemini Netherlands, and Johns Hopkins University to develop Enhance, an advanced collaborative analytics platform. This solution offers policymakers valuable insights to help reshape food systems to ensure access to affordable, healthy and sustainable diets for vulnerable populations worldwide.

Enhance rapidly analyzes and optimizes baskets of foods for cost, nutritional value, diversity and sustainability. The cloud-based platform enables multi-objective simulations, helping governments and partners design better policies and programs for healthy, sustainable diets. Already in use across more than 20 countries, the Enhance platform transforms how governments, NGOs, and agencies support better diets across diverse geographies by balancing calories, essential nutrient content, diversity for long-term health, cost, and environmental impact.

Explore how WFP, Capgemini and Tilburg University are using data-driven innovation to transform food systems to deliver sustainable, nutritious, and diverse diets for communities worldwide.