Webinar to build better diet-related food security indicators
On January 30, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy and Ag2Nut community will co-host a webinar on the Data4Diets platform. The platform is designed to help program implementers, policymakers, and researchers identify which diet-related food security indicators are best suited for their objectives and how they should be constructed and used.
Seminar highlights how food systems can best contribute to the micronutrient quality of diets
The Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI are co-organizing a policy seminar on the changing challenges of hidden hunger on February 3 in Washington, DC. The event will explore how the global health and development community can develop a better understanding of how food systems can contribute to the micronutrient quality of diets.
Global Forum for Food and Agriculture zeros in on role of trade in food systems
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture 2020 in January in Berlin, Germany, focused on trade for secure, diverse, and sustainable nutrition. Seventy-one ministers of agriculture committed at the end in a communiqué to foster trade for global food security; make trade work for agricultural development; make food value chains inclusive, sustainable, and safe; and strengthen fair rules in agricultural trade. IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen participated in a panel as part of the event, and IFPRI will host a follow-up seminar on January 30 to discuss the role of trade in sustaining food security and nutrition in the face of current challenges to food systems.
Food Systems Dashboard to help decisionmakers change food systems for the better
On January 27, IFPRI, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and Johns Hopkins University co-organized a policy seminar presenting the Food Systems Dashboard. The Dashboard brings together data from public and private sources to help decisionmakers diagnose their food systems and identify all their levers of change and the ones that need to be pulled first.
World Economic Forum events highlight SDGS, food systems, and more
Several events during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland explored topics related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), health, nutrition, and food systems including:
Political and commercial drivers must be examined in the fight against malnutrition
The Lancet published a series of papers on the double burden of malnutrition in December. In a blog post, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Stuart Gillespie responds urging consideration of the political and commercial drivers behind the double burden and the ways in which different forms of inequity drive food system dysfunctionality.
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