Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality, edited by H.K. Biesalski and R. Birner, illustrates the global fight against hunger by national governments and international organizations. The book includes a chapter on Compact2025 showing that with the proper framework, committed national leadership, and adequate funding, hunger and undernutrition can be eliminated by 2025. Additional highlights […]
Featured Resources: Week of November 20
During the recent 31st ASEAN Summit, leaders of the ASEAN member states adopted a Declaration on Ending All Forms of Malnutrition. The declaration recognizes the “urgent need to accelerate evidence-based multi-sectoral actions, and scale up interventions to reduce and ultimately end all forms of malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable, poor and disadvantaged groups of […]
Building on Progress in Rwanda: Compact2025 Forum
Ending hunger and malnutrition, and building human capacity is “a moral obligation that we need to fulfill as the current generation,” highlighted Dr. Gerardine Mukeshimana, the Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, as she opened the Compact2025 Forum in Kigali, Rwanda on October 23, 2017. Jointly hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute […]
Featured Resources: Week of October 23
Recognizing the critical role of knowledge and innovation to rapidly end hunger, undernutrition, and poverty, IFPRI and the Governance Innovation Unit (GIU) of the Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh signed an agreement on October 4 to create a Compact2025 Knowledge and Innovation Hub (K&I Hub) in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is one of Compact2025’s focal countries, committed […]
Featured Resources: Week of September 25
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the first ever Goalkeepers event on September 20, highlighting progress toward the SDGs and announcing a set of “accelerators”—including The Power of Nutrition—that are catalyzing investments and innovations to achieve these goals. The event also launched the first Goalkeepers Report, an annual progress check on the SDGs. The […]
