An evaluation of a nutrition- and gender-sensitive agriculture program in Burkina Faso found that improvements in women's empowerment in the domains of spousal communication, purchasing decisions, healthcare decisions, and family planning decisions contributed to the program's impact on reducing child wasting. These findings provide the first evidence from a randomized controlled trial that women's empowerment […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 27
A report from the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and the Global Knowledge Initiative identifies 12 innovations that could improve access to safe and nutritious foods in emerging markets and are ready to be deployed at scale within the next five years. The report also provides a methodology for screening and prioritizing innovations. Additional highlights […]
Featured Resources: Week of May 13
Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction reports the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% of the assessed targets of the Sustainable Development Goals—including those related to ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan […]
Featured Resources: Week of April 29
The 2019 Global Food Policy Report launches in Malawi and Bangladesh—two Compact2025 focal countries—highlight the importance of and options for revitalizing rural areas in each country. The Bangladesh launch event featured an address by Muhammad Abdur Razzaque, Minister of Agriculture and Compact2025 Leadership Council member. Additional highlights from this week’s Compact2025 News in Brief include: […]
Bringing evidence to nutrition decisionmakers in Ethiopia: NIPN policy and research seminars
For research to inform decisions, evidence must reach decisionmakers. In Ethiopia, the National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) promotes outreach of nutrition-related research findings by organizing topical Nutrition Research and Policy Seminars. These outreach activities are key opportunities to disseminate existing high-level research findings and to promote increased nutrition knowledge among programmatic, policy, and donor decision […]
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