Compact2025 News in Brief: June 20, 2018

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.

Accelerating innovation for sustainable development

G7 Ministers responsible for humanitarian action and development assistance endorsed the “Whistler Principles” to guide and accelerate innovation for development impact—such as supporting the poorest, including women; investing in local innovators; and using rigorous data—during their meeting on May 31–June 2.

Ending hunger and malnutrition in the 21^st century

Key policy actions are urgently needed to end hunger and malnutrition. Efforts must focus on improving diet quality for all according to an article in the BMJ.

Improving diet diversity in Bangladesh

Examining the link between farm diversification and diet diversity in Bangladesh, a study in Food Security suggests: In order to improve dietary diversity it may be necessary to couple efforts to increase farm diversity, market access, farm commercialization, and income diversification with women’s empowerment.

(Mis)using stunting to measure child health

A recent commentary in the Journal of Nutrition explores how the term “stunting” has evolved from being a population-level statistical indicator of children's social and economic deprivation to being widely used to define chronic malnutrition.

Revealing food’s hidden costs

A new platform is presented in a report by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food (TEEBAgriFood) initiative. It evaluates the real costs and benefits—including environmental, health, and social impacts—of agriculture and food systems.

Understanding food loss and waste in Africa South of the Sahara

A Food Policy review of food loss and waste in Sub-Saharan Africa suggests that focusing on approaches such as reducing pre-harvest losses and investing in greater food safety surveillance could achieve the same objectives of current efforts to reduce post-harvest losses and may be more cost-effective.

Scaling up biofortified crops

The latest crop map from HarvestPlus shows the global effort to end hidden hunger is gaining momentum: More than 290 biofortified varieties of 12 staple food crops have been released or are in testing in more than 60 countries around the world.

Improving the nutrition of food aid

The Food Assistance for Nutrition Evidence Summit on June 27–28 in Washington, D.C., will synthesize the current state of research on food assistance for nutrition, facilitate dialogue on key policy and program-relevant findings, and identify priority domains for future research.

Highlights from this and past Compact2025 News in Briefs, along with other key resources, can be found at the Compact2025 Knowledge & Innovation Hub resources page.

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