Intersectoral Approach to Nutrition Security
| The 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI) points to a dire hunger situation in a world coping with multiple crises. Progress toward Zero Hunger by 2030, already far too slow, is showing signs of stagnating or even being reversed. | |
| 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit and UN Food Systems Summit Joint Statement | The UN Food Systems Summit and the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit are working collaboratively to advance solutions across systems with a mutual recognition that malnutrition in all its forms is one of the biggest challenges we face to ensuring optimal health, resilience, and prosperity for all. |
| Asia’s Eating Habits are Changing and the Environmental Impact Could be Huge | Today agriculture in the region faces a different kind of food supply challenge. Higher incomes and increasingly urban lifestyles have changed the needs and preferences of consumers. To meet these changing food preferences, agriculture in the region will have to reorient from a traditional focus on the production of food staples to high-value crops such as fruit and vegetables, as well as livestock and aquaculture. This will mean a more resource-intensive production as well as rising greenhouse gases. |
| The 2020 Global Nutrition Report is launched in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. This is not only a health crisis followed by an economic crisis. In many developing countries, it is a health and nutrition crisis, combined with a socioeconomic crisis. | |
| The 2021 Global Nutrition Report provides a concise data-focused update on the state of diets and nutrition in the world. Independent analysis of the best data on nutrition is critical for evidence-based, timely and effective actions to ensure we deliver on our global commitment to end poor diets and malnutrition. | |
| Harnessing the Export Potential of Indigenous Products to Lift Rural Economies | Lessons from Greater Mekong Subregion countries can help efforts to develop premium markets for Kazakhstan’s halal lamb meat and Mongolia’s camel wool. |
| Nutrition-Sensitive Food Systems in Conflict-Affected Regions: A Case Study of Afghanistan | This paper reports on an analysis of the nutrition sensitivity of food systems in Afghanistan using multi-sector consultations and gap analyses to examine two key food and nutrition policies, the National Comprehensive Agriculture Development Priority Program and the Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda. |
| The event discussed the framework to address selected drivers of food and nutrition insecurity, malnutrition, and the unaffordability of healthy diets in Asia and the Pacific. | |
| Raising Food Standards for Cross-Border Trade in the Lao People's Democratic Republic | Building safe, secure systems for production and safe handling of agricultural products for international trade is an important part of ADB’s regional ADF grant operations. |
| UNICEF-WHO-The World Bank: Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates — Levels and Trends – 2021 Edition | The UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank inter-agency team update the joint global and regional estimates of malnutrition among children under 5 years annually. |
| The Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum is a signature event organized by the Rural Development and Food Security (Agriculture) Thematic Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank. | Asian Development Bank Development Asia ADB Knowledge Events |