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With research staff from more than 60 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Erick Boy

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Erick Boy

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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Overview

Eliminating hunger and undernutrition is key to ending extreme poverty. Doing so paves the way for achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the anchor of the post-2015 agenda.

Compact2025 is an initiative for ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025. It brings stakeholders together to set priorities, innovate and learn, fine-tune actions, build on successes, and share lessons to accelerate progress.

Compact2025 employs the following approaches and activities:

  • Engaging countries, beginning with an initial focus on four countries—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Rwanda.
  • Stimulating knowledge and innovation through a global Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) Hub.
  • Supporting existing initiatives and partnerships.

By building a knowledge base and promoting innovation, Compact2025 helps countries develop, scale up, and communicate policies and programs to accelerate progress toward ending hunger and undernutrition.

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IFPRI publications related to nutrition in Ethiopia

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IFPRI publications related to nutrition in Ethiopia

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) began research activities in Ethiopia in the 1980s to assess the root causes of drought-related food-production shortages and support adoption of appropriate policy responses. IFPRI’s rigorous empirical research contributed to a broader understanding of economic development processes in Ethiopia and built capacity to conduct such research on a national scale. Working with many long-standing partners, IFPRI evaluated strategies for achieving sustainable agricultural growth, investment in agricultural research, the provision of safety nets to strengthen resilience, prioritization of nutrition interventions for women and children, property rights, and management of natural resources, among other goals. Evidence from this and other work informed programs and initiatives to improve food and nutrition security for vulnerable people.

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2019

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Compact 2025

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Compact 2025. 2019. IFPRI publications related to nutrition in Ethiopia. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147201

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Ethiopia

Keywords

Eastern Africa; Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Economic Development; Hunger; Malnutrition; Food Security; Poverty

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English

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Open Access

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Compact 2025: Conference program guide

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Compact 2025: Conference program guide

Welcome to the Global Event on “Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition.” Your participation will make a valuable contribution to this groundbreaking initiative to advance human well-being. Hunger and the multiple burdens of malnutrition cause human suffering and hold back economic potential. Achieving food and nutrition security is fundamental to reaching all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, in recent years, progress towards eradicating hunger has slowed and even reversed globally. To end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, the world urgently needs to correct its course and pick up the pace.

Year published

2018

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Compact2025

Citation

Compact 2025. 2018. Compact 2025: Conference program guide. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146613

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Economic Development; Hunger; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Food Security; Poverty

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English

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Open Access

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Accelerators to eliminate hunger and malnutrition

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Accelerators to eliminate hunger and malnutrition

Progress in eliminating hunger and malnutrition is too slow. Despite some periods of significant progress, reductions in hunger and undernutrition on a global scale have stagnated since 2000, and progress has varied widely across countries. In 2017, the number of undernourished people worldwide rose to nearly 821 million from around 804 million in 2016, and 151 million children remain stunted. At the same time, overweight, obesity, and associated noncommunicable diseases are rising faster than undernutrition is declining. Rapid urbanization, climate change, and continued conflict pose further threats to our global food system. If the world is to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030—the target year to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—it is time to pick up the pace.

Year published

2018

Authors

Compact2025

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Compact 2025. 2018. Accelerators to eliminate hunger and malnutrition. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146865

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Economic Development; Hunger; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Food Security; Poverty

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English

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Open Access

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Blogs

Reducing food loss is key to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025
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September 05, 2017

Reducing food loss is key to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025

By Shenggen Fan

Approximately $940 billion worth of food is lost or wasted each year throughout the entire food supply chain.

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan at FAO-WHO symposium: World can accelerate progress toward ending hunger and undernutrition
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December 02, 2016

IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan at FAO-WHO symposium: World can accelerate progress toward ending hunger and undernutrition

By Shenggen Fan

Countries must build on existing progress toward ending hunger, using better data and policies based on sound evidence, IFPRI's leader says.

Climate-Smart Agriculture is key to ending hunger
IFPRI Blog
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December 01, 2015

Climate-Smart Agriculture is key to ending hunger

By Shenggen Fan

Post originally published in the Huffington Post.

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News

December 12, 2019 | Press Release

PRESS RELEASE: National Nutrition Meeting to share evidence to tackle hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia

A national nutrition conference to present new research for ending malnutrition through the National Food and Nutrition Policy. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Despite progress, many children in Ethiopia remain stunted, diet diversity continues to pose a challenge, and food systems are changing rapidly. To support the implementation of Ethiopia’s National Food and Nutrition Policy (NFNP), […]

November 19, 2015 | Press Release

Compact2025: An ambitious initiative to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is launching Compact2025, an ambitious initiative to work with countries to end hunger and undernutrition by 2025, as a first step toward eradicating extreme poverty. Inspired and informed by successes in many countries, Compact2025 seeks to bring evidence, data, and innovation to the challenge of ending hunger and […]

Events

Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
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November 28 to 30, 2018

Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition

Improving food security and nutrition is critical to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, but the world is not on track to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030. How can we accelerate progress in transforming our agri-food systems to meet the needs of the hungry and malnourished? This global learning event will bring together decision makers, […]

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Teunis van Rheenen

Teunis van Rheenen

Director, Business Development and External Relations, Director
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The Programs

  • Kutubdia Island in the Bay of Bengal

    Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program

    Improving food and nutrition security is of paramount concern to millions in Bangladesh.

  • Wuxi, the fast growing city that was formerly known as White Horse Village.

    China Strategy Support Program

    Supports joint research & capacity strengthening as well as policy dialogues & communication to improve policymaking.

  • Farm land in Giza in Egypt

    Egypt Strategy Support Program

    Egypt SSP's main objective is to raise incomes of the rural poor and to improve food and nutrition security in Egypt.

  • Gayo village, Ethiopia

    Ethiopia Strategy Support Program

    ESSP is a collaborative program undertaken by IFPRI and the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI)

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    Ghana Strategy Support Program

    Conduct research & advise on policy to support agricultural growth, rural development & economic transformation.

  • Local vendors selling vegetables at a market in Kenya,Africa

    Kenya Strategy Support Program

    KSSP is a policy research, capacity strengthening and policy communication program with the main objectives to accelerate poverty reduction and to improve food security.

  • Mitundu Market, Lilongwe, Malawi

    Malawi Strategy Support Program

    This project facilitates and promotes evidence-based dialogue and decision-making in support of agricultural development, food security, and economic growth in Malawi.

  • Country program Myanmar

    Myanmar Strategy Support Program

    The project supports agricultural transformation and other development policy goals by enhancing national technical, institutional, and policy analysis capacities.

  • Nigeria Strategy Support Program

    NSSP responds to the research, analysis, and capacity needs of stakeholders in the Nigerian agricultural research and policy community.

  • Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Policy Support Program

    The Papua New Guinea Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Policy Support Program (PNG-AFNP) is an initiative aligned with the Government of Papua New Guinea’s vision to revitalize and transform its agricultural sector to improve economic opportunities, livelihoods, and food security.

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    Rwanda Strategy Support Program

    Rwanda SSP is an initiative aligned with the Government of Rwanda’s vision to accelerate agricultural transformation and rural development in Rwanda.

  • A sunset view of river Nile in Khartoum, Sudan

    Sudan Strategy Support Program

    The Sudan Country Strategy Support Program (CSSP), with key team members based in Khartoum, can provide needed analytical support to the Government of Sudan, local and international partners.