In December 2023, Consumers International held its quadrennial congress, bringing together over 600 experts and advocates together online and in-person in Nairobi, Kenya. This briefing note reflects on some of the major issues that were discussed at the congress.

This evidence brief focuses on how early life nutrition, including prenatal exposures, caregiver feeding practices and childhood eating behaviours, contributes to overweight and obesity risk in children.

This paper argues that today’s food environments and food systems around the world are dominated by the corporate-industrial food industry, and that this is undermining sustainable human development and public health on a global scale. It calls for an ecological approach to regulation that considers the economic, environmental, and political dimensions of complex food systems...

This report details a survey FARE and VicHealth conducted last year with 220 people seeking to reduce alcohol, gambling and unhealthy foods. The survey aimed to understand how marketing for these harmful and unhealthy products impacts people trying to reduce these products.

This research sets out to uncover which food categories could be promising targets for reformulation to reduce calorie consumption, and what the main barriers or opportunities to reformulation were for industry and policy-makers