This year, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and IFPRI's Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP) launched the “Healthy Food, Bright Future” youth essay contest, where young people ages 12-18 were invited to submit essays on healthy food: what is it, how do we get it, and why does it matter. In the […]
Youth Essay Contest, “Healthy Food, Bright Future”
YOUTH ESSAY CONTEST "Healthy Food, Bright Future" স্বাস্থ্যকর খাবার খেলে, উজ্জ্বল ভবিষ্যৎ মেলে The International Food Policy Research Institute Research Institute (IFPRI) invites Bangladeshi teens (ages 12-18) to write an essay on what healthy food and a bright future mean to you. Please answer the following questions in your essay: What are healthy foods? How […]
Challenge lies in ensuring healthy diets for all in BD
Experts identified on Wednesday several challenges to ensuring healthy diets for all age groups in Bangladesh, including an increase in consumption of healthy foods and a cut in consumption of some processed foods with little nutritional value or anti-nutritive factors. They noted that mere awareness about healthy diet was not sufficient as people consume foods […]
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 […]
Healthy Diets to Combat Malnutrition and Climate Change: Shenggen Fan
Shenggen Fan The global food system faces major challenges and trends related to rapid urbanisation, changing diets, climate change, political uncertainties, and anti-globalization sentiments. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that, in addition to addressing multiple burdens of malnutrition, there is an increasing need to seek an environmentally sustainable food system in […]