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 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) finds that despite long-term progress in reducing hunger in the world, 52 of 106 countries for which data are available face serious to extremely alarming levels of hunger.
Ethiopia was able to reduce under-5 mortality by 69 percent between 1990 and 2013 by combining activities in health, nutrition, and non-health sectors, finds a case study in The Lancet Global Health.
The implementation of multisectoral nutrition as part of the African Nutrition Security Partnership in Burkina Faso, Mali, Ethiopia, and Uganda, as well as its strategies, tactics and challenges of boundary-spanning actors are documented in a study in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management.
To accelerate agricultural growth and poverty reduction, countries should invest in education, agricultural research and development, rural infrastructure, and health, concludes a study in Economic and Political Weekly that draws lessons from India’s experience.
Strengthening rural markets must be a key element in strategies to improve food security and dietary quality according to a new study in PLOS ONE that finds purchased foods play a larger role for dietary diversity than subsistence production.
The 2017 Global Agricultural Productivity Report finds that, for the fourth straight year, global agricultural productivity growth is not accelerating quickly enough to sustainably meet the demands of our growing world.
On November 13, Action Against Hunger will host its Research for Nutrition Conference in Paris, France, with a focus on operational challenges and uptake in prevention and treatment of undernutrition.
