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 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 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 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 Juan Pablo Gianatiempo and Brian McNamara October 16, 2024 Mercosur (the Southern Common Market of South American countries) plays an important role in global food security as a major exporter of grains and other food products—and its members face a number of serious challenges. Climate change, market instability, and protectionist policies threaten to disrupt agricultural production and trade. At the same time, these
By Emily Schmidt and Rishabh Mukerjee October 18, 2024 In Papua New Guinea (PNG), rural communities play a crucial role in shaping the country’s agricultural landscape and food security. To better understand these dynamics, IFPRI conducted a Rural Household Survey between May and December 2023 that aimed to gain a clearer picture of rural livelihood structures, food security status, and nutrition trends. We outlined some
By Suman Chakrabarti, Soyra Gune, Tim A. Bruckner, Julie Strominger, and Parvati Singh October 23, 2024 In 2014, the Indian government launched the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission (SBM) aimed at improving public sanitation. By 2020, the program had constructed 100 million toilets across the country. In SBM’s first five years, national rates of open defecation fell from 60% to 19% and toilet availability doubled.
By Kibrom Abay, Clemens Breisinger, Harriet Mawia, Joyce Maru, Dorah Momanyi, and Boniface Munene October 28, 2024 Africa’s population is the youngest of any region, with more than 400 million young people aged 15 to 35 out of a total of 1.5 billion. But even though rising numbers of this cohort—a “youth bulge”—enter the labor market every year, African economies are still