By Marie Ruel and Inge Brouwer October 15, 2024 Part of a series on key themes from IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report. Read the other posts here and here. This year’s World Food Day theme, “Right to Food for a Better Life and a Better Future,” stresses the critical role of sustainable food systems in ensuring everyone’s fundamental right to nutritious food and healthy diets. As global
By Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Anne M. Larson October 14, 2024 The Reach, Benefit, Empower framework—a tool for clarifying gender strategies for development projects—emerged in 2016 following a review of a group of agricultural development projects under the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project Phase Two (GAAP2) portfolio. Even though the stated aim of all the projects was to empower women, closer examination found
By Danielle Resnick and Aditi Chugh October 11, 2024 Part of a series on key themes of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report. Enhancing access to affordable, healthy, and diverse diets is an important and growing policy priority around the world as many countries face public health problems of malnutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, as well as challenges from climate
By Rob Vos October 4, 2024 With conflict in the Middle East now escalating into Lebanon and beyond, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to face dire food security conditions. One year has passed since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, triggering the Israeli military retaliation and war that have killed more than 41,000 Palestinians and devastated
By Joseph Glauber September 30, 2024 The United States is the world’s second largest export destination for agricultural goods after China. The impending U.S. longshoreman and port operator strike—likely to begin at midnight September 30 barring a last-minute resolution—could have significant consequences for developing countries, particularly for those that typically ship a majority of exports to ports on the U.S.
By Fabiana F. De Moura, Mourad Moursi, Moira Donahue Angel, and Erick Boy September 20, 2024 Populations across South, East, and Southeast Asia, where rice is the main staple food, have some of the highest estimated prevalences of inadequate zinc intake in the world. While rice provides ample energy and a base intake of many minerals and vitamins, it doesn’t
By Mulubrhan Amare, Kate Ambler, Temilolu Bamiwuye, Jeffrey Bloem, Rewa Misra, and Julia Wagner September 18, 2024 Economic theory tells us that price plays an important role in determining demand for goods and services. When prices fall, demand rises. Demand curves, therefore, typically slope downward. Thus, discount vouchers (in the private sector) and subsidies (in the public sector) are popular, evidence–backed mechanisms for reducing consumer prices and
By Taddese Zerfu September 11, 2024 The Ethiopian Health Extension Program (HEP) has long been a cornerstone of the country’s public health strategy, especially in rural and underserved areas. Launched with high hopes in 2003, the HEP aimed to advance health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and provide essential health services to communities with limited access. From its early years, the