In 2017, 124 million people in 51 countries were affected by acute food insecurity—11 million more people than the previous year—finds the Global Report on Food Crises 2018. It concludes that food crises are increasingly determined by complex causes such as conflict, extreme climatic shocks, and high prices of staple foods often acting at the […]
Featured Resources: Week of March 12
Nearly all African countries improved levels of child nutrition between 2000 and 2015 but disparities persist across and within countries according to researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation—at current rates, no country will meet the Sustainable Development Goal target to end malnutrition by 2030. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, responded to the […]
Featured Resources: Week of November 6
Compact2025 and partners recently organized forums on accelerating progress to end hunger and malnutrition in Rwanda and breaking the cycle of food shortages and humanitarian responses in Malawi. These events followed up on roundtable discussions held in each country in 2016, to assess progress based on last year’s recommendations and develop plans of action in […]
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 […]
Investing in nutrition to unlock human capital and economic prosperity
On April 22, the World Bank and Department for International Development, United Kingdom (DFID) hosted “Spotlight on Nutrition: Unlocking Human Potential and Economic Growth,” a panel discussion highlighting how investments in nutrition can yield enormous economic and human capital returns. Nutrition is essential to the development of children and enables them to be healthy, productive […]
