An article in Nature maps estimates of child growth failure indicators—stunting, wasting, and undernutrition—from 2000 to 2017 across 105 low- and middle-income countries at various administrative levels. There were remarkable declines over the study period, but many countries remain far from the ambitious WHO 2025 Global Nutrition Targets. Additional highlights from this week’s Compact2025 News […]
Featured Resources: Week of January 6
The Lancet published a four-paper series exploring how the double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of overnutrition (overweight and obesity) alongside undernutrition (stunting and wasting) at all population levels—is affecting low- and middle-income countries. Contributors include Compact2025 Leadership Council member Gerda Verburg, Compact2025 Technical Advisory Committee member Patrizia Fracassi, and IFPRI Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division […]
Featured Resources: Week of November 25
Outgoing IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan reflects in a Global Food Policy article on the promise of food policy to change human lives. He shares experiences from his time at IFPRI and lessons learned about how to best exploit the promise of food policy to eradicate hunger and ensure food and nutrition security for all […]
Featured Resources: Week of November 11
A study in The Lancet Global Health uses food price and household income data of 159 countries to estimate affordability of the benchmark diets recommended in the EAT-Lancet Commission report. The conclusion is that the reference diet costs a small fraction of average incomes in high-income countries but is not affordable for the world's poor: […]
Featured Resources: Week of October 28
A rapid increase in aquaculture production in Bangladesh has lowered fish prices, increased protein consumption, and reduced poverty. The new book The Making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh is a case study of how this transformation in the fish value chain occurred, how it improved the lives of fish producers and fish consumers, and […]
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