Compact2025 News in Brief: June 21, 2017

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NEWS in BRIEF #19

21 June 2017

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.

The National Nutrition Council of the Philippines launched the country’s Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022 in May.

The government of the Gambia launched an $11.4 million nutrition project aiming to improve food security and reduce stunting among vulnerable children.

UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank have released the 2017 joint estimates for child malnutrition including an interactive dashboard. Malnutrition rates remain alarming, stunting is declining too slowly while overweight continues to rise, and Africa and Asia bear the greatest share of all forms of malnutrition.

Cities are powerful agents in the world of food and are finding innovative ways to design food policies. The report from the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems is based on five case studies.

NEPAD’s Africa Nutrition Map provides a snapshot of Africa’s nutrition context and indicates hot points of hunger and malnutrition.

Two World Health Organization policy briefs review the double burden of malnutrition and propose cost-effective double-duty interventions and policies that address undernutrition as well as overweight and obesity.

The new Food, Planet, Health website showcases news, case studies, and data tools from the EAT-Lancet Commission.

Small-scale agricultural systems play an important role for Uganda’s national food and nutrition security , according to a study that models the possible nutrition outcomes of the country’s Vision 2040 plan.

Nourishing Millions launched a podcast series that features the latest thinking about nutrition from top policymakers, researchers, and practitioners. The first two episodes explore how the consumption of insects has the potential to solve global malnutrition and how to create opportunities for women and girls in agriculture through education.

The next webinar hosted by the Policies, Institutions, and Markets CGIAR Research Program on June 28 will explore what levels and composition of investment best serve global objectives of poverty reduction, improved nutrition, and sustainable resource management.

“Food can fix it”: The EAT Stockholm Food Forum 2017 held June 12 – 13 focused on how transformations in the food system can solve climate, sustainability, and health challenges.

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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