The past decade has seen unprecedented attention going to undernutrition, and drastically reducing child stunting has become a global development objective. The focus on linear growth retardation and stunting led to successful advocacy for nutrition but also revealed confusion and misunderstanding about the meaning of these terms among researchers, donors, and agencies active in nutrition. […]
Featured Resources: Week of October 14
Congratulations to the World Food Programme for the Nobel Peace Prize! The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the World Food Programme (WFP) the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and its contribution to improving conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas. The award shines a spotlight on global hunger, which due to climate […]
Ethiopia webinar: COVID-19 and its Impacts on Childhood Malnutrition and Nutrition-related Mortality
The National Information Platform for Nutrition (NIPN), the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), IFPRI, and the Food Security Portal (FSP) project are co-organizing a webinar with support from the European Commission on COVID-19 and its impacts on childhood malnutrition. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, September 23 at 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EAT […]
Featured Resources: Week of August 19
Findings from five exemplar countries—Nepal, Ethiopia, Peru, Kyrgyz Republic, and Senegal—provide guidance on how to accelerate reductions in child stunting: improvements in maternal education, maternal nutrition, maternal and newborn care, and reductions in fertility interpregnancy intervals stand out as strong contributors to change. This synthesis also provides a new framework for strategies to accelerate stunting […]
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 […]
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