New evidence continues to signal a rise in world hunger and a reversal of trends after a prolonged decline. In 2017, the number of undernourished people is estimated to have increased to 821 million – around one out of every nine people in the world. The alarming signs of increasing food insecurity and high levels of different forms of malnutrition are a clear warning that there is considerable work to be done to make sure we “leave no one behind” on the road towards achieving SDG 2. Achieving it requires renewed efforts through new and innovative ways of working and hinges on effective partnership. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Governments must step up to meet deadline to end hunger
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World governments will need to lift 185,000 people out of hunger each day for the next 12 years in order to meet global goals to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. The calculation was made by Kostas Stamoulis, assistant director-general of the U.N. […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Upcoming Global Event: Accelerating the end of Hunger and Malnutrition
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have organized a global event to accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition. This event is aligned with the imperatives of the Compact2025 initiative and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition to make accelerated progress on >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Food Security at the UN General Assembly 2018: Three take-away messages
Nadim Khouri, Independent Researcher - The World Bank
The annual meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) is an opportunity for the leaders of all countries around the World, and their high-levels officers, to discuss specific themes, exchange ideas and agree on priorities at the global, regional or bi-lateral levels. This year’s UNGA meeting had as a general theme: “Making the United Nations Relevant to All People”. Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
World Food Day: Innovations are imperative to ending hunger and malnutrition
IFPRI blog by Shenggen Fan. Food security and nutrition are directly or indirectly related to all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and can be considered a prerequisite to sustainable development. It is thus imperative to accelerate progress on eliminating hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030 to pave the way for achieving all the >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
