Malnutrition continues to be the leading risk factor for disease burden in India, concludes an analysis of the disease burden attributable to child and maternal malnutrition published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. While encouraging that India has set ambitious targets to reduce malnutrition through its National Nutrition Mission, the trends up to 2017 […]
Featured Resources: Week of July 8
The 44th edition of the United Nations Systems Standing Committee on Nutrition’s flagship publication, UNSCN Nutrition, explores the contexts in which consumers engage with the food system to make their decisions about acquiring, preparing, and consuming food, and the impact of such food environments on their final dietary choices. The publication includes an opening article […]
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 March 4
Agriculture's vast potential to improve nutrition is just beginning to be tapped. Agriculture for Improved Nutrition: Seizing the Momentum—a new book published by IFPRI and CABI—reviews the latest findings, results from on-the-ground programs and interventions, and recent policy experiences from countries around the world that are forging the agriculture and nutrition sectors closer together. Additional […]
NIPN brings together researchers, implementers and decision makers to discuss Food Systems and Diets in Ethiopia
Almost eighty researchers, program implementers and policy makers came together at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) on September 7, 2018 to discuss how food systems and diets are interlinked in Ethiopia. This opportunity was provided by the National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN) which convened its first Nutrition Research and Policy Seminar around this […]
