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BY SHERWIN GABRIEL, DIRK VAN SEVENTER, CHANNING ARNDT, ROBERT J. DAVIES, LAURENCE HARRIS, SHERMAN ROBINSON AND JENNA WILF While we have learned a lot about the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses to it, many countries continue to face difficult decisions as they confront new waves of infections and medium term impacts. In this post, Sherwin Gabriel and colleagues present results

The Platforms for Healthier Diets project examines the role of platforms in strengthening and/or supporting scaling up and anchoring food system transformations for healthier diets. In this study, researchers explore the connection between existing multi-stakeholder platforms which are active in the nutrition and food space, and current national policy agendas related to food systems in Ethiopia and Vietnam, focusing on

Aquatic food products improve access to nutritious foods among vulnerable communities in Myanmar. WorldFish has partnered with a local business to train youth in the development and marketing of dried fish products, empowering them to lead the fight against malnutrition. Read more

In times of expected economic shocks, farming households may turn to planting staple crops for their own consumption, at the expense of income growth, diet diversity, and agricultural commercialization. This study examines the food consumption-production linkage in such a situation in Nigeria, and explores a policy initiative that may mitigate these adverse effects.

In this report, researchers from the A4NH’s Platforms for Healthier Diets project aim to identify the most important topics in current national-level policies related to nutrition and healthier diets in Bangladesh and Nigeria. Key questions addressed included: What are the critical topics from a food system’s perspective, highlighted in national policies, to be addressed in order to improve food system

The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership, CGIAR, is currently developing a series of initiatives to implement its 2030 research and innovation strategy that was launched in early 2021. One of these research initiatives, Protecting human health through a One Health approach, aims to improve the prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance, foodborne diseases and zoonoses in seven target countries:

As extreme weather conditions increasingly threaten the global wheat supply, CIMMYT head of wheat physiology Matthew Reynolds discusses the importance of developing drought-resistant crops through breeding programs to keep bread on the table.

As we mark World Water Week, water, land, energy, forest and biodiversity systems around the world are under extreme stress from climate change and other anthropogenic pressures. These systems are all critical to food and nutrition security, as well as rural livelihoods and the broader economy. These systems are also strongly interconnected: The availability of water and the health of