Accelerating progress towards ending hunger and malnutrition requires evidence to guide effective and efficient policies, programs, and implementation. Browse our collection of key evidence, lessons learned, tools, and more, and feel free to suggest a resource. We look forward to discussing these and learning more about the latest evidence and innovative ideas in Bangkok!

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Accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition: A global event: Synopsis
IFPRI. 2019

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The IFPRI-FAO global event explored a wealth of proven and potential accelerators to end hunger and malnutrition. Dive into the synopsis, which covers key topics from the wide-ranging exchanges on how to accelerate progress.
Nutrition behaviour change communication causes sustained effects on IYCN knowledge in two cluster-randomised trials in Bangladesh
Hoddinott, John; Ahmed, Akhter; Karachiwalla, Naureen I.; Roy, Shalini. 2018

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A study of behavior change communication in Bangladesh by Cornell and IFPRI researchers presents three main findings: (1) this type of communication improves knowledge on infant and young child nutrition substantially in the first year of intervention, (2) the increase in knowledge between the 1st and 2nd year is smaller, (3) knowledge persists: there are no significant decreases in knowledge 6-10 months after the communication activities ended.
Accelerating Behavior Change in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
SPRING. 2018

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Online training helps practitioners learn how to integrate behavior change methods into nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices.
Improving diets in an era of food market transformation: Challenges and opportunities for engagement between the public and private sectors
Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition. 2018

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Policy brief sets out six priorities to make public and private sector links more effective to improve the food environment and enable better dietary choices.
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index
IFPRI. 2018

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The new website for the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a resource center for tools to diagnose areas of disempowerment and design development programs to address those areas.
Identifying sociodemographic, programmatic and dietary drivers of anaemia reduction in pregnant Indian women over 10 years
Chakrabarti, Suman; George, Nitya; Majumder, Moutushi; Raykar, Neha; Scott, Samuel. 2018

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A Public Health Nutrition study in India finds that multi-sectoral public health policies and programmes that target basic, underlying, and immediate factors are likely to have greatest impact on anemia reduction among pregnant women.
The State of Acute Malnutrition
No Wasted Lives Coalition. 2018

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The website, supported by the No Wasted Lives Coalition, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of all available information related to acute malnutrition, at a global and country-specific level.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018: Building climate resilience for food security and nutrition
FAO; IFAD; UNICEF; WFP; WHO. 2018

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The 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report finds the number of undernourished people has increased to nearly 821 million in 2017.
Evidence to Action: Highlights From Transform Nutrition Research (2012-2017)
Gillespie, Stuart; Hoddinott, John; Nisbett, Nicholas; Arifeen, Shams; van den Bold, Mara. 2018

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A review of the Transform Nutrition research consortium (2012-2017) highlights results including (1) a better understanding of the effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventions; (2) evidence of the need to explicitly link social protection and agriculture to nutrition to reduce stunting; (3) identification of key components of “enabling environments”; (4) research on how leaders emerge and operate to change the political and policy landscape; and (5) “stories of change” documenting how transformative change has been driven in countries to reduce malnutrition.
The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2018: Agricultural trade, climate change and food security
FAO. 2018

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The 2018 edition of SOCO focuses on the complex and underexplored intersection between agricultural trade, climate change and food security.

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