The second episode of Research Talks—a monthly podcast from IFPRI—explores how the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project used trainings to directly empower poor people in Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh is now implementing ANGeL nationwide.
Additional highlights from this week’s Compact2025 News in Brief include:
- Three experts give their viewpoint drawn from the Brookings Institution’s Foresight Africa 2020 report and set out key policy priorities for achieving food and nutrition security in Africa by 2030.
- The authors of a BMJ analysis suggest that better nutrition must be part of the universal health coverage agenda.
- In their 2020 annual letter, Bill and Melinda Gates recount lessons learned from the first 20 years of their foundation’s investments as well as new directions for the future.