LAUNCH: 2017 Global Food Policy Report
Mar 23, 2017 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EDT
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?
