The UN Secretary-General launched a policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on food security and nutrition. Protecting essential food service workers, strengthening social protection for nutrition, and transforming food systems toward sustainability and inclusion will be key to safeguard food security and nutrition. Additional highlights from this week’s Compact2025 News in Brief include: Food […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 24
Congratulations to Rattan Lal, who was named the 2020 World Food Prize Laureate! His soil-centric approach to agricultural practices spurred innovative soil-saving techniques that benefited the livelihoods of over 500 million smallholder farmers. His contributions—spanning five decades of work across four continents—have improved food security, nutrition, and environmental sustainability for billions of people around the […]
Synthesis: Accelerating better diets and nutrition in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has witnessed significant reductions in child mortality, undernutrition, and communicable diseases, but more substantial and faster progress is still needed. The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) synthesized and presented a report on nutrition in Ethiopia to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the design team of the Food and Nutrition Strategy. Compact2025, through its […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 10, 2020
The spread of COVID-19, and the range of policy responses to contain the pandemic, exert wide-ranging effects on agri-food systems and livelihoods. IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal captures these policy responses and examines their direct and indirect impacts on the crisis in many Compact2025 countries and beyond, including the different types of institutional collaboration […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 27, 2020
Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is an important component of a shift towards healthier and more sustainable diets. A Lancet Planetary Health article finds only 40 countries, or 36 percent of the population, had adequate availability of fruits and vegetables in 2015 according to age-specific analysis using World Health Organization minimum targets. Along with economic […]
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