Compact2025 News in Brief: July 24, 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.

Kyrgyz Republic approves Food Security and Nutrition Program

The government of the Kyrgyz Republic has approved a national Food Security and Nutrition Program for 2019–2023. The program was adopted to implement the strategic priorities of sustainable development and to ensure food security of the country and rapid response to internal and external threats to the stability of the domestic food market.

Global hunger still on the rise for third year in a row

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 the key findings of the report.

Increasing CO₂ levels and projected climate change reduce nutrient content

A study in The Lancet Planetary Health estimates that the combined effects of projected increases in atmospheric CO₂ will reduce the global availability of nutrients by 19.5 percent for protein, 14.4 percent for iron, and 14.6 percent for zinc relative to expected technology and market gains by 2050.

Feeding 10 billion people without destroying the planet

The World Resources Report Creating a Sustainable Food Future offers a five-course menu of solutions to ensure we can feed 10 billion people by 2050 without increasing emissions, fueling deforestation or exacerbating poverty. These solutions propose to close three major gaps by 2050: the food gap, the land gap, and the greenhouse gas mitigation gap.

World is off-track to meet SDGs on food and agriculture-related targets

The world is off-track to meet most of the Sustainable Development Goal targets linked to hunger, food security, and nutrition, concludes the first FAO progress report for SDG indicators: hunger is on the rise, small-scale food producers earn about half that of larger producers, and food price volatility is high in many developing countries.

Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions

A BMJ Global Health analysis identifies 24 nutrition interventions that should be tracked by all countries to provide high-quality actionable data that enhances political commitment. The authors propose high-impact nutrition-specific interventions along with indicators for tracking their coverage. They regard a value chain approach to the generation, analysis, communication, and use of data as key for progress.

Estimated cost of inadequate breastfeeding: up to $340 billion annually

Alive & Thrive has developed a tool to illustrate the cost of not breastfeeding for 34 countries. Based on research published in Health Policy and Planning, the tool allows users to estimate the human and economic costs of not breastfeeding including preventable child deaths and household costs.

All hands on deck to reduce stunting in Africa south of the Sahara

The book All Hands on Deck: Reducing Stunting through Multisectoral Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the evidence on nutrition-sensitive interventions to inform more effective multisectoral action on undernutrition in the region. It aims to assist in the formulation of more informed, evidence-based, and balanced multisectoral strategies against undernutrition.

World Bank hosts 24-hour Econothon

The World Bank will host an Econothon on July 24 and 25, broadcasting discussions on development economics live from around the world for 24 hours. Speakers will discuss topics ranging from the economics of climate resilience to the best model for development. Global audiences are encouraged to submit questions ahead of the event.

Transforming agri-food systems for human and planetary health

In an article for the Asia & Pacific Policy Society, IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan reflects on the intersection of climate change, food, and migration and calls for innovative policies, technologies, and institutions to transform agri-food systems for both human and planetary health.

Climate change is reducing global food supplies

An article in The Conversation reflects on research led by the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment showing that climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies. While some crop yields have increased in some locations, climate change is reducing global production of staples overall. When crop yields are translated into consumable calories, climate change is already shrinking food supplies, particularly in food-insecure developing countries.

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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