New Initiative builds on CGIAR’s collective strengths and brings together stakeholders to address key regional development challenges In the race to make food production and consumption more sustainable, South Asia is key. Home to one quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth — the region has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition. While South Asia produces
The new CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) and three partners in Viet Nam recently formalized their commitment to strengthen stakeholder engagement in food systems transformation for sustainable and healthy diets in Viet Nam. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), on behalf of SHiFT, the Viet Nam Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS), the
Why does a food systems approach matter? Approximately 100 participants from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam will be learning together to find the answer to that question and more through a recently launched e-course on Food Systems Governance, offered by the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT). The online course is made up of
This week the Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative will convene technical experts to provide inputs and recommendations into a multi-year, global effort to advance the assessment of healthy diets for global monitoring. Marie Ruel, Lead of the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT), will participate. Dietary intake indicators for global monitoring of people’s diets do not
To enable a transition towards healthier diets, it is important to first understand what people eat. But almost any method of learning about consumption patterns relies on a survey respondent’s ability to remember what they and others in their family ate. Whether people overestimate or underestimate their food consumption, it can be equally problematic for researchers. A recent paper published
Among children and adolescents, 5 to 19 years old, overweight and obesity increased from 8.5 percent to 19 percent from 2010 to 2020 in Viet Nam, according to the General Nutrition Survey. Helping children to make healthy food choices – and reduce their consumption of sugar in particular – may reverse trends in childhood obesity and prevent obesity in adulthood.
How innovations, which have been recognized to contribute to the current resource-intensive, wasteful and fossil fuel-based paradigm of mass production and mass consumption which we live in and feed from, could, suddenly become the solution that leads us to food system sustainability? While major recent global events (including COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, or the current skyrocketing inflation) have
Can food systems transformation occur without public institutions playing a leading role? This controversial question was posed in an online debate hosted in October by NL-CGIAR, a research program funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Inge Brouwer, a Work Package Lead from CGIAR’s Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) and an Associate Professor