Compact2025 News in Brief: July 18, 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.

Innovative finance for investing in health and nutrition

The World Bank issues its Sustainable Development Bond to engage investors on the importance of investing in the health and nutrition of women, children and adolescents and to demonstrate how private sector investment can support development financing. The initiative launched with the issuance of a CAD 60 million bond.

Involving husbands helps improve maternal nutrition

Engaging husbands in a maternal nutrition program substantially contributed to women’s increased intake of micronutrient supplements and dietary diversity during pregnancy concludes a study of the Alive and Thrive program in the Journal of Nutrition.

Mechanizing African agriculture

Mechanized—the latest report from the Malabo Montpellier Panel—shows that a sustainably mechanized African agriculture would increase production and expand the supply of nutritious crops, while providing the necessary training and skill development to smallholders and young people in rural areas. The report was launched during the Malabo Montpellier Forum in Malawi on July 10.

Food insecurity projected to decline in next decade

The USDA’s International Food Security Assessment 2018-28 for 76 low- and middle-income countries projects that the share of the population that is food insecure will fall from 21.1. percent in 2018 to 10.4 percent in 2028 due to lower projected food prices and higher incomes.

Multi-stakeholder partnerships for food security and nutrition

A report on multi-stakeholder partnerships by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition concludes that these partnerships should be an integral part of strategies, plans and programs across sectors to achieve food security and nutrition goals. The report targets and provides five recommendations for how this should be done to achieve maximum efficiency and impact.

Overcoming the separation between child wasting and stunting

Greater program efficiency and effectiveness can be realized if child wasting and stunting are jointly tackled. This will require a radical change in how we view, finance, and intervene to reduce these forms of undernutrition according to a briefing note from the Emergency Nutrition Network.

Reshaping food systems to achieve multiple SDGs

IFPRI hosted an official side event on “Investing for Reshaping Food Systems” during the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on July 11, which explored key policies and investments to reshape food systems that can help achieve multiple Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Examining the private sector’s role in ending malnutrition

Malnutrition Deeply debates the role of the private sector in fighting malnutrition focusing on a nutrition program for children in Nigeria funded by Cadbury’s parent company Mondelez International and implemented by Helen Keller International.

Nabeeha Kazi-Hutchins to lead No Wasted Lives

No Wasted Lives has appointed Nabeeha Kazi-Hutchins, member of Compact2025’s Technical Advisory Committee, as its Executive Director. No Wasted Lives was launched to accelerate action for scaling up access to preventive and curative services for acute malnutrition.

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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