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 August 19
An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report (summary for policymakers | full report) explores how land use—including for agriculture and food production—contributes to climate change and how climate change affects land and food security. It finds that agriculture and forestry represented 23 percent of total net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions during 2007–2016 and suggests […]
Featured Resources: Week of January 21
Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth, but it currently is threatening both people and planet concludes a review by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health. The study—authored by 30 world-leading scientists from across the globe—outlines how to sustainably feed a future population of 10 billion […]
Featured Resources: Week of October 22
Ceres2030 will build global consensus on the interventions needed to end hunger and transform the lives of the world’s poorest farmers while protecting the environment. Led by Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, IFPRI, and the International Institute of Sustainable Development, this new initiative will support the development and monitoring of a global donor […]
Featured Resources: Week of September 10
The 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World analyses the drivers of hunger and malnutrition and finds that the number of undernourished people has increased from around 804 million in 2016 to nearly 821 million in 2017, reaching levels from almost a decade ago. This year’s report stresses that climate extremes and […]
