Findings from five exemplar countries—Nepal, Ethiopia, Peru, Kyrgyz Republic, and Senegal—provide guidance on how to accelerate reductions in child stunting: improvements in maternal education, maternal nutrition, maternal and newborn care, and reductions in fertility interpregnancy intervals stand out as strong contributors to change. This synthesis also provides a new framework for strategies to accelerate stunting […]
Featured Resources: Week of August 5
Download the new IFPRI e-book on COVID-19 and Global Food Security. It brings together insights and analyses from researchers on the impacts of the first six months of the global pandemic. The book was launched in a virtual event on August 4. Additional highlights from this week’s Compact2025 News in Brief include: A journal article […]
Featured Resources: Week of July 22
UN agencies released the 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI), which delivers several urgent warnings: globally, hunger continues to rise, undernutrition persists, and overweight and obesity are growing in all regions—all this already before the COVID-19 crisis began. Additional highlights from this week’s Compact2025 News in Brief include: In a […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 27, 2020
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 May 13, 2020
Strengthening food supply chains can play a central role in breaking the vicious cycle of conflict, undernourishment, and forced migration. An IFPRI issue post examines how integrating forcibly displaced and conflict-affected people into food systems can help them rebuild their lives, reduce one potential source of conflict, and benefit local economies. This blog post complements […]
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