The 46th session of the Committee on World Food Security takes place October 14–18 in Rome, Italy, and will feature sessions on topics including the Sustainable Development Goals, food systems and nutrition, and multi-stakeholder partnerships. IFPRI is co-organizing with partners several side events that will complement the main agenda: Reducing Post-Harvest Losses in Agriculture Nutrition […]
Featured Resources: Week of September 16
Two studies in a PLOS Medicine special issue on maternal and child health and nutrition explore the impact of interventions aimed at reducing barriers to treatment of acute malnutrition in Burkina Faso and Mali. They find that integrating preventative nutrition interventions into acute malnutrition screening increases participation in monthly screenings and providing nutrient supplements during […]
Featured Resources: Week of August 19
An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report (summary for policymakers | full report) explores how land use—including for agriculture and food production—contributes to climate change and how climate change affects land and food security. It finds that agriculture and forestry represented 23 percent of total net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions during 2007–2016 and suggests […]
Featured Resources: Week of July 22
More than 820 million people did not have enough to eat in 2018, over 9 million more than in 2017. This is the third year of increase in a row according to the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 report. On July 18, IFPRI and FAO hosted a discussion on […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 24
The Malabo Montpellier Panel report Byte by byte: policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies examines what seven African countries at the forefront of progress on digitalization of the agriculture sector have done right, from apps such as FarmCrowdy and FarmDrive using Big Data to help farmers access loans to Rwanda’s construction […]
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