IFPRI Insights: 2019 GFPR Special Edition

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Erick Boy is the Chief Nutritionist in the HarvestPlus section of the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. As head of nutrition for the HarvestPlus Program since 2008, he has led research that has generated scientific evidence on biofortified staple crops as efficacious and effective interventions to help address iron, vitamin A, and zinc deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

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IFPRI Insights: 2019 GFPR Special Edition

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March 27, 2019

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2019 Global Food Policy Report Launches Today
Rural areas are in crisis around the world. The 2019 Global Food Policy Report highlights the urgency of rural revitalization to reduce hunger and malnutrition and improve livelihoods and environments in rural areas.
(Watch LIVE: Report Launch | Read Synopsis | Read Full Report)

In the Rearview: Reviewing major food policy developments globally, Shenggen Fan explains why a fundamental transformation of our food and agricultural system and of rural areas is urgently needed if the world is to achieve SDGs by 2030. (Chapter 1)

Rural Revitalization: UNDP Administrator, Achim Steiner, and Shenggen Fan call for strengthening rural-urban linkages, from farms to small towns to megacities, that can benefit rural labor, production, distribution, markets, services, consumption, and environmental sustainability. (Chapter 2)

Poverty, Hunger, and Malnutrition: Brookings’ Homi Kharas and Lorenz Noe argue that the transformation of rural areas offers the surest path to local livelihood improvements and food and security for the rural poor. (Chapter 3)

Employment & Livelihoods: Xinshen Diao, Paul Dorosh, Mekamu Kedir Jemal, Adam Kennedy, and James Thurlow describe how transforming traditional agriculture generates better rural employment opportunities and must be at the heart of revitalizing Africa’s rural areas. (Chapter 4)

Gender Equality: Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Hazel Malapit examine how formulating, implementing, and monitoring both programs and policies through the reach-benefit-empower lens can help assure that women’s needs are met and that women have greater capacity to contribute to rural revitalization. (Chapter 5)

Environment: Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick explain why rural revitalization must go beyond economic progress as conventionally measured to also restore and improve the natural environment–not only for better rural living conditions, but also for the health of the planet. (Chapter 6)

Renewable Energy: Channing Arndt focuses on the renewable energy revolution, which is providing valuable tools for enhancing growth and development prospects in developing countries while meeting environmental objectives at local and global scales. (Chapter 7)

Governance: Katrina Kosec and Danielle Resnick highlight the role of downward accountability in facilitating information flows to governments and helping ensure that policies and public investments reflect citizens’ real needs and preferences. (Chapter 8)

Europe’s Experience: Trinity College’s Alan Matthews examines the evolution of European Union’s development policy for rural areas, eliciting valuable lessons for other countries pursuing similar rural development objectives. (Chapter 9)

Call for Rural Revitalization
Our three-minute video explains how rural revitalization can be the key to improving rural lives, creating vibrant rural areas, and meeting the SDGs. (Watch Video)

Explore the growing focus on rural revitalization and its potential to spark change, along with perspectives on food policy developments, across major regions.

(Africa | Middle East & North Africa | Central Asia | South Asia | East & Southeast Asia | Latin America & the Caribbean)

Power of Data: Explore updated datasets and indicators–data that provide vital information to gauge the impact of policy changes and progress made on reducing poverty, ending hunger and malnutrition. (Explore Data)

A Story of Rural Revitalization
Shenggen Fan recalls his childhood in rural China in the 1960s-70s and the vast transformation of his village since then – showing the huge potential of rural revitalization outlined in the 2019 Global Food Policy Report. (Watch Video)