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.
In its new position paper “Nutrition Boost,” Save the Children calls for a step change in generating increased national and global funding for nutrition and recommends four key pillars to guide spending of increased funding: 1) focusing on national nutrition plans, 2) embedding equity, 3) being transparent and accountable, and 4) bridging the humanitarian/development divide.
Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality, edited by H.K. Biesalski and R. Birner, illustrates the global fight against hunger by national governments and international organizations. The book includes a chapter on Compact2025 showing that with the proper framework, committed national leadership, and adequate funding, hunger and undernutrition can be eliminated by 2025.
Well‐designed mass media interventions that reach families and the broader community play an important role for nutrition behaviors that are highly embedded in sociocultural contexts such as child feeding. They should be combined with other strategies, and more evidence is needed to refine these interventions for social and behavior change finds a study by IFPRI, Oxford, and WHO researchers.
There is little evidence to support the assumption that increasing farm production diversity is a highly effective strategy to improve smallholder diets and nutrition in most or all situations. This is the conclusion of a systematic review by authors from the University of Goettingen who have analyzed associations between production diversity, dietary diversity, and nutrition in smallholder households.
Current levels of private sector investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve the SDGs concludes a new paper from the World Bank. More efforts are needed to improve the enabling environment for maximizing private sector investment for agricultural development.
Enthusiastic data users can compete in showcasing their creativity and analytical skills to develop an innovative knowledge product or project that addresses a development challenge faced by Africa. The ReSAKSS website provides the data and other resources and accepts applications during the next four months.
The new website for the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a resource center for tools to diagnose areas of disempowerment and design development programs to address those areas.
Representatives from the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda and Sustainable Nutrition for All (SNV) in Zambia shared experiences from national and local governance structures and highlighted the importance of multi-sectoral approaches to nutrition governance and implementation in a recent webinar.
