Global Micronutrient Forum Conference and Summit on Food Fortification postponed
The organizers of the Micronutrient Forum 5th Global Conference and the Second Global Summit on Food Fortification—originally scheduled to take place back-to-back from March 22–27 in Bangkok, Thailand—have postponed these events to a later unspecified date. This follows guidance from the Government of Thailand, in response to the threat of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Southeast Asia.
Enhanced South-South cooperation needed to transform agriculture and end hunger
The President of the UN General Assembly convened an interactive dialogue on February 12, where participants discussed the need to reduce unacceptably high levels of hunger through South-South and triangular cooperation for agricultural transformation. They urged for policy interventions that support smallholders and highlighted the key role that cooperation agreements can play in coming up with local solutions that can be scaled up.
African countries must accelerate progress to achieve the Malabo Declaration goals by 2025
African countries are making progress toward achieving the Malabo Declaration goals, but the rate of this progress has slowed according to the 2019 Biennial Review Report and Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard. In a blog post, Tsitsi Makombe and Julie Kurtz of IFPRI's Africa Office review the report findings including that the continent as a whole is off track to enhance investment finance in agriculture, end hunger by 2025, and enhance resilience to climate variability.
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