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Researchers from the University of Goettingen and European Commission have found that the burden of global chronic hunger has more than halved since 1990. Economic growth is a major determinant that reduced the burden of hunger, but reducing the burden of hidden hunger requires additional interventions at the micro level.
A gender analysis of impact evaluations for nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs provides recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of agriculture-to-nutrition pathways. Authors from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and the Dutch Food & Business Knowledge Platform suggest creating space for local interpretations of women’s empowerment through participatory monitoring systems and including indicators to capture different domains of women’s empowerment and potential harmful or unintended consequences to women of agriculture nutrition programs.
A consumer-focused analysis of value chain interventions by IFPRI researchers concludes that more evidence is needed to understand how approaches such as behavior change communication programs, food labeling, and technologies that lower transaction costs for farmers could help reduce malnutrition. The authors call for increased engagement between value chain interventions and the private sector to ensure sustainable impacts on nutrition outcomes.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect low- and lower-middle income countries. A systematic review by researchers from the University of Oxford and WHO finds that many interventions addressing poverty and development have the potential to impact NCD prevalence and risk, but most fail to measure or report these outcomes.
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs are an effective development tool to improve child linear growth and can protect children from political and economic shocks in vulnerable countries such as Burundi finds a study by IFPRI researchers.
What does it take to encourage investment in nutrition? On April 16, Malnutrition Deeply will host a conversation with a World Bank expert on the opportunities to scale up nutrition-sensitive interventions alongside direct funding for malnutrition programs.
The SDG Academy offers a free course on “Feeding a Hungry Planet: Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainability,” that launches on April 16. It will explore how we can ensure a healthy and sustainable diet for our growing world population, and the role of agriculture to support the Sustainable Development Goals. The course was produced with the support of Rothamsted Research and Wageningen University.
