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. Find the latest developments in Compact2025 here.
The ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on Ending All Forms of Malnutrition was adopted at the recent 31st ASEAN Summit. The ASEAN Health Ministers were called on to monitor the progress of the Declaration and support the delivery of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions.
The risk of hunger could increase by up to 20 percent by 2050 due to climate change unless increased efforts are made to enable the world’s most vulnerable communities to better adapt to extreme weather events finds a new WFP report.
Regional FAO overviews of food security and nutrition—recently released for Africa and Asia—list adverse climatic conditions, a slow global economy and conflicts as key factors driving food insecurity in Africa, while Asia urgently needs to boost regional food systems and accelerate action to improve diets and nutrition.
Improving diets in early childhood is the focus of a special issue of Maternal and Child Nutrition. Articles examine complementary feeding practices, diet quality and diversity, and innovations to improve child nutrition.
An article in Global Food Security debunks four myths about women in agriculture: that they (1) are poor, (2) produce most of the food, (3) own basically no land, and (4) are better stewards of the environment. The article calls for collecting and using better data to capture the variation in the roles and status of women to develop effective policies to promote food security.
The 2017 Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Global Gathering brought together more than 900 participants from its member states and networks as well as high-level leaders. Gerda Verburg, Coordinator of the SUN Movement and Compact2025 Leadership Council member, noted that while progress has been made on undernutrition, more must be done.
The Public-Private Partnerships Lab—an initiative commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs—will host an event on November 30 in The Hague, Netherlands, to explore how to achieve transformational change in food and water systems through public-private partnerships.
