Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is an important component of a shift towards healthier and more sustainable diets. A Lancet Planetary Health article finds only 40 countries, or 36 percent of the population, had adequate availability of fruits and vegetables in 2015 according to age-specific analysis using World Health Organization minimum targets. Along with economic […]
Featured Resources: Week of February 24
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 January 27
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 […]
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