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The World Bank, the Power of Nutrition, and the Global Financing Facility have committed US$55 million to the Rwanda Stunting Prevention and Reduction Project. This partnership with the Government of Rwanda aims to reduce stunting rates among children under age 5 in 13 of Rwanda’s highest-burden stunting districts.
IFPRI Food Policy Report on agriculture, food security, and nutrition in Malawi explores how the country can better leverage its smallholder agriculture sector to improve nutrition by diversifying production and increasing irrigation.
Nearly all African countries improved levels of child nutrition between 2000 and 2015 but disparities persist across and within countries find researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General, responded to the study calling on African leaders to invest in data to target resources, develop policies, and track accountability for nutrition interventions. IFPRI Senior Research Fellow Purnima Menon reflected on the need to create precise public health and development interventions that address the inequalities highlighted through the study’s precision geospatial analysis.
A study in Nature Sustainability finds that international food trade is essential to nutrient access—it enables some poorer countries to be able to nourish up to hundreds of millions of people and protectionist trade policies could therefore have serious negative consequences for food security.
IFPRI will launch its 2018 Global Food Policy Report on March 20 in Washington, D.C. The Institute’s flagship report reviews the changing policy landscape for reducing hunger and poverty and focuses this year on how leveraging the benefits of globalization while minimizing the risks can make a key contribution toward sustainably ending poverty and malnutrition.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs will host the Global Food Security Symposium 2018 in Washington, D.C., on March 21 and 22: “Youth for Growth” will focus on how harnessing the potential of surging youth populations in Africa will be crucial for global food security and stability.
