More than 820 million people did not have enough to eat in 2018, over 9 million more than in 2017. This is the third year of increase in a row according to the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 report. On July 18, IFPRI and FAO hosted a discussion on […]
Featured Resources: Week of July 8
The 44th edition of the United Nations Systems Standing Committee on Nutrition’s flagship publication, UNSCN Nutrition, explores the contexts in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing, and consuming food, and the impact of such food environments on their final dietary choices. The publication includes an opening article […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 10
An evaluation of a nutrition- and gender-sensitive agriculture program in Burkina Faso found that improvements in women's empowerment in the domains of spousal communication, purchasing decisions, healthcare decisions, and family planning decisions contributed to the program's impact on reducing child wasting. These findings provide the first evidence from a randomized controlled trial that women's empowerment […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 13
Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction reports the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Development Goals—including those related to ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan […]
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 […]
