Compact2025 News in Brief: February 6, 2019

To accelerate progress to end hunger and undernutrition around the world, the News in Brief informs partners on emerging research and innovation, developments in global, regional, and national policies and programs, and timely news and events. Please feel free to share any feedback at IFPRI-Compact2025@cgiar.org. Find the latest developments in Compact2025 here.

Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition: Bangkok Conference Synopsis

The IFPRI-FAO global event explored a wealth of proven and potential accelerators to end hunger and malnutrition. Dive into the synopsis, which covers key topics from the wide-ranging exchanges on how to accelerate progress.

Food systems for healthy diets

A new FAO policy guidance note recommends using food systems as entry points to guide the delivery of healthy diets and subsequently address all forms of malnutrition. Particular focus is given to tackling overweight, obesity, and diet-related noncommunicable diseases.

A differentiated approach to healthy and sustainable diets

The world will require a differentiated approach in developing countries and poor populations to achieve the healthy and sustainable diets called for in the recent EAT-Lancet Commission report. Read IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan’s latest blog post that explores how increasing accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious food will be key.

The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change

The health gains achieved through economic development over the last five decades could be reversed by 2050 due to the consequences of climate change according to a report by the Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change. The report urges for a radical rethinking of business models, food systems, civil society involvement, and national and international governance to address these multiple overlapping challenges. IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Stuart Gillespie reflects on the report’s findings and recommendations in a new blog post.

The relationships between women’s time and income poverty and nutrition

A study of the relationships between time and income poverty and nutrition in Bangladesh finds: (1) greater income is consistently related to better nutrition; (2) the connection between time poverty and nutrition is largely tenuous; (3) when income is low, time poverty may improve nutrition; and (4) women’s empowerment may improve nutrition, but only when income is high.

Coordinating for nutrition in different country contexts

Issue 11 of the Emergency Nutrition Network’s Nutrition Exchange features ten country articles that focus on nutrition networks and coordination for scaling up nutrition. They explore how to achieve effective coordination for nutrition in different contexts, with different stakeholders, and through various mechanisms.

Climate tops Global Risks Perception Survey

Environmental risks dominate the most likely and impactful risks in the Global Risks Perception Survey that informs the World Economic Forum’s 2019 Global Risks Report: extreme weather and climate-change policy failures are seen as the gravest threats over a ten-year horizon.

Climate resilience and jobs for young people in agriculture

The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets is organizing a webinar on February 7 to explore the impact of climate change on agri-food system livelihood opportunities for young people and what can be done to improve their prospects.

Science academies working to transform food systems

On February 14, IFPRI and the InterAcademy Partnership—a global network of science academies—will host a seminar to share perspectives from regional networks of science academies on the challenges facing food and nutrition security and agriculture today. Speakers will explore mutual interests in increasing the sciences’ contribution to informed policy development, innovation, and practice.

Distinguished instructors offer free online course on agriculture, nutrition, and sustainability

The 7-week massive, open, online course (MOOC) “Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability” will run for the third time starting on February 11. The course—free and open—examines key questions for agriculture and nutrition including how to ensure a healthy and sustainable diet for our growing world population, and how agriculture should adapt to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Building data science for social impact

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth announced a joint, $50-million investment over five years to build the field of data science for social impact. The collaboration will kick off with a $20-million investment in DataKind, a global non-profit that connects data science talent with social organizations.

Highlights from this and past Compact2025 News in Briefs, along with other key resources, can be found at the Compact2025 Knowledge & Innovation Hub resources page.

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