ATNi offers a valuable and distinctive partnership for applicants responding to this call, with its strong track record of assessing the food and beverage industry with the aim to improve the healthiness and affordability, and sustainability of food environments. Our deep engagements with major food manufacturers, investors, and policymakers allow us to bring critical private-sector perspectives into system-wide approaches aimed at shifting consumer norms and behaviours. Aligned with the call’s focus on enabling sustainable food choices through transformed digital and physical environments, ATNi provides evidence-based insights, standardized benchmarking, and policy-relevant tools that support systemic change. Our growing work on digital innovation and AI further enhances our ability to contribute to projects exploring how data, transparency, and digital engagement can foster food literacy, counter misinformation, and strengthen consumer agency-particularly for vulnerable groups. Our ongoing work is focused on improving transparency around product portfolios and closing critical data gaps, particularly in low- and middle-income settings. These efforts support better-informed decision-making among companies, investors, and governments, and help create the conditions for healthier, more sustainable diets. By partnering with ATNI, consortia can ground their proposals in practical, evidence-based levers for change that reflect both consumer needs and market dynamics.

ATNi envisions a world where markets contribute to providing access to nutritious and affordable diets for all. ATNi’s mission is to empower food system actors , starting with industry , to accelerate access nutritious, affordable and sustainable diets. We develop data-driven tools, facilitate dialogues and thought leadership, and support policies focusing on the role of markets in transforming the food system.