LAUNCH: 2017 Global Food Policy Report

• Full report
• 2017 GFPR Fact Sheet
• Map and data widget

Speakers:

• Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (Presentation | Video)
• Louise Fresco, President, Wageningen University & Research Center (Video)
• Danielle Resnick, Senior Research Fellow, Development Strategies and Governance Division, IFPRI (Presentation | Video)
• Vimlendra Sharan, Director, Liaison office for North America of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (Presentation | Video)
• Elizabeth Buckingham, Foreign Affairs Officer, Office of Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State (Video)
• Q&A Video

The world is rapidly urbanizing.  How does this affect hunger and malnutrition?  IFPRI’s 2017 Global Food Policy Report takes an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities of urbanization for food security and nutrition.

Critical questions addressed in this Report include:

• What do we know about the impacts of urbanization on hunger and nutrition?
• What are our greatest research and data needs for better policy making that will ensure food security and improve diets for growing urban populations?
• How can we better connect rural smallholders to urban food consumers to ensure that smallholders and urban residents benefit from expanding urban food markets?
• What role do informal markets play in feeding cities, and how can they be better governed to increase urban food security?