New evidence quantifies significant negative health effects.

Balancing nutrition and climate.

Research links high food prices to wasting and stunting.

Positive results from the Tubaramure program suggest lessons for COVID-19 responses and future crises.

Evidence shows that these programs can work, but are the costs reasonable?

The relative abundance of food in cities does not mean that everyone has equal access to safe, diverse, healthy, and affordable diets.

A program combining nutritious rations with behavior change communication yields positive results.

Steps must be taken now to avert a decades-long nutrition and public health crisis.

The pandemic has all the makings of a perfect storm for global malnutrition.

Confronting a ubiquitous yet tricky problem as food systems rapidly evolve. 

Studies show mixed results for a program that coupled acute malnutrition screenings with dietary supplements.

A nutrition program reduced stunting, but mothers who participated retained more weight—suggesting such tradeoffs should be part of program design.

A new IFPRI research program—Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition, and Health—will fill critical knowledge and evidence gaps about food systems and the urban poor.

Combining food rations, behavior change communication, and better access to public health services improves infant nutrition and reduces stunting, an IFPRI study shows.

 

 

As cities grow around the world, poor residents face mounting diet-related issues, including obesity.

Today's adolescents are the future—yet there is a paucity of sound data on their nutrition and health.

Development assistance in the form of food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition can play an important role in protecting poor families from economic or health shocks in vulnerable countries such as Burundi.

To maximize the impact such nutritional interventions can have on a child's linear growth, research shows they should target the entire period from conception to a child's second birthday.

As the world's cities grow, so do the problems of the urban poor—exposing gaps in knowledge needed to devise effective policies.

IFPRI research shows that maternal mental health problems, including depression, can harm child nutrition and health—and that helping mothers in this regard helps children.