A UN Standing Committee on Nutrition discussion paper reviews the challenges associated with the complex web of pathways that link water, food security, and nutrition outcomes. It recommends three key strategies: (1) implement nutrition-sensitive agricultural water management; (2) increase the environmental sustainability of diets; and (3) explicitly address social inequities in water-nutrition linkages. Additional highlights […]
Featured Resources: Week of February 10
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 […]
High-level sensitization seminar in Botswana
Botswana, a new Compact2025 focal country, hosted IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan and others at a high-level sensitization seminar in early December 2019 together with the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security (MoA). The meeting explored collaboration under Compact2025 to accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition in the country. While Botswana has made […]
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 […]
Program announcement: IFPRI, Rwanda government partner on policy analysis, capacity strengthening for rural transformation
Building on its remarkable social and economic progress over the past two decades, Rwanda is now accelerating its agenda for sustainable development and inclusive growth, known as the National Strategy for Transformation, by reinforcing its emphasis on agriculture, nutrition, and rural transformation. To support this effort, IFPRI has partnered with the Ministry of Agriculture and […]
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