In 2017, IFPRI partnered with Wageningen University & Research on a five-year Food Systems for Healthier Diets project, launched in Bangladesh and several other countries globally. The program focuses on food systems through the agri-food value chains impact pathway and the associated policy enabling required to accelerate food system innovation, scaling, and anchoring. On October […]
80 million more to suffer by 2050: Daily Sun
Shenggen Fan, Director General of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said though agri-food systems have been central to recent unprecedented reductions in poverty, hunger, and undernutrition, the systems face mounting climate impacts that threaten their ability to feed a growing population. All the while global hunger and food insecurity are once again on the […]
EAT-Lancet Commission Report Launch in Bangladesh
The world faces a pandemic of malnutrition marked by the coexistence of overweight and underweight and a surge of diet-related chronic diseases. Global food production is the single largest driver of environmental degradation and climate instability. The new EAT–Lancet Commission report identifies targets and strategies for achieving a sustainable global food system for healthier diets by 2050—including […]
IFPRI Delivers Keynote on Food and Nutrition Security
Learn more about how IFPRI is kicking off conversations on connecting pathways for improved food and nutrition security.
Launch of “Food Systems for Healthier Diets” Project in Bangladesh
This six-year research program aims to shape the future of food systems in Bangladesh and other focal countries. What policy actions will it take?