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Special event: From Commitments to Impact: Analyzing the Global Commitments Toward Promoting Food Security and Healthy Diets

Since the mid-2010s, progress in reducing food insecurity and improving diet quality has stalled. Multiple shocks, including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have exacerbated the situation and put Sustain... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

New Publication – Prevalence, trends, and inequality in noncommunicable diseases in Bangladesh

In December 2023, IFPRI researcher Md. Masum Ali and co-authors from Dhaka University and Lund University published the open access article, "Prevalence, trends, and inequality in noncommunicable diseases in Bangladesh: Evidence from Bangladesh Demogra... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

33rd Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture: Tackling Obesity and Noncommunicable Diseases in Mexico

Globally, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has nearly tripled since 1975—among adults over the age of 18, more than 1.25 billion are overweight and 650 million are obese. Overweight and obesity affects more than 340 million children and adolesc... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

New Study: Adolescent Girls, Diets and School-based Nutrition Education

A comprehensive package of nutrition education interventions delivered through public primary schools can significantly improve dietary practices among adolescents, according to a new study published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

IFPRI Blog: Children as platform for improving child nutrition in Malawi

This blog post is part of a special, monthly series entitled “Stories of Change,” documenting the impact of IFPRI's projects and initiatives. These stories reflect the wide breadth of the Institute's research, communications, and capacity-strengthening... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program