Food systems must be reshaped to provide access to nutritious, affordable, and safe foods to enable all individuals to achieve their full potential as healthy, productive members of society and to ensure the health and nutrition of future generations.
IFPRI’s research on this strategic area:
- Works to improve the diet quality of the poor—particularly women, adolescent girls, and children, who require high levels of essential nutrients.
- Seeks to protect and enhance the nutrient content of foods throughout the value chain including tackling food safety challenges.
- Investigates the role that behavioral change can play in achieving nutrition and health outcomes.
- Examines multisectoral programming and policy making, engaging with several sectors beyond agriculture including health, water, sanitation and hygiene, education, and social protection, that are essential to tackling nutrition in a holistic way and improving nutrition and health outcomes at scale.
- Supports biofortification research and scaling up dissemination of biofortified staple foods.
- Explores the implications of rapid urbanization, such as the challenges and opportunities that urbanization creates for both rural and urban food security, health, and nutrition; how programs and policies can be better tailored to address the unique constraints and challenges faced by urban dwellers, including ensuring stable livelihoods, adequate food security, and access to safe and nutritious diets, empowering women, and achieving optimal health and nutrition; and how rural-urban linkages can be strengthened to prevent hunger and malnutrition and address inequality.
- Focuses on key issues related to changing diets, including factors driving diet and nutrition transitions, the size and implications of the health burden of noncommunicable diseases, and actions needed to prevent the negative impacts of diet transitions.
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