health

Global Food 50/50 Launch Event

The Global Food 50/50 initiative monitors progress and holds food system organizations accountable for advancing gender-just and equitable food systems. This event marks the launch of the third annual Global Food 50/50 Report, which reviews the gender-... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

El Niño: Malawi’s harvest of maize – its staple food – may fall by 22.5% this year (The Conversation)

The Conversation published an article by Joachim De Weerdt, Channing Arndt, James Thurlow, Jan Duchoslav, Joseph Glauber, Liangzhi You, and Weston Anderson. The article looked at possible weather pattern changes driven by El Niño – an unusual warming o... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

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