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 Government of India has launched its National Nutrition Strategy—with detailed information on the country’s nutrition status and objectives—committed to ensuring that every child, adolescent girl, and woman attains optimal nutritional status by 2022.
Tanzania’s Prime Minister launched the National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan that aims to reduce the country’s stunting rate from 34 to 28 percent in the next five years by scaling up evidence-based multisectoral nutrition interventions.
The National Planning Commission of Nepal recently hosted a roundtable on “Government Action for Nutrition in South Asia” that brought together decision makers and practitioners to share their experiences in designing and implementing programs to tackle malnutrition in the region.
The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition has released its report entitled “Nutrition and Food Systems.” The report analyzes how food systems influence dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes and highlights policies and programs that could shape food systems to deliver healthy, sustainable food.
In a two-part video blog, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon discusses how implementation research can be used to strengthen scale up efforts in nutrition. She draws on examples from country work in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the first ever Goalkeepers event, highlighting progress toward the SDGs and announcing a set of “accelerators”—including The Power of Nutrition—that are catalyzing investments and innovations to achieve these goals. The event also launched the first Goalkeepers Report, an annual progress check on the SDGs, featuring a case study on Peru’s success reducing stunting rates.
On September 22, the Committee on World Food Security hosted an event in Rome on achieving the 2025 global target for stunting that highlighted the need to target actions within health, social protection, and food systems.
“How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food”: A New York Times article investigates how Western food companies are expanding their reach in middle- and low-income countries and thus contribute to obesity and health problems along the way.
On October 4, IFPRI will organize two events in Dhaka, Bangladesh, bringing together stakeholders to discuss the critical poverty, hunger, and malnutrition issues that the country faces and chart a path forward to accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition.
The action research and global learning network SEEP will focus its Annual Conference (October 2–4 in Arlington, Virginia) on “Catalyzing Transformative Change.” One of the technical tracks concentrates on markets, food systems, and nutrition.
