By Sonja Tanaka, Jemimah Njuki Gender equality is a precondition for achieving the world’s shared ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, including delivering sustainable food systems. Gender is intricately linked to all components of food systems. Gender inequalities are both a cause and an outcome of unsustainable food systems and unjust food access, […]
COVID-19 pandemic offers rare chance for food systems transformation
By Jo Swinnen and John McDermott The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions of social interactions, affecting both the supply and demand for food. These disruptions to jobs, income and food supply magnified and exacerbated existing inequalities. While the emerging urban middle class suffered greater income losses, the poor and vulnerable in rural and urban […]
IFPRI and UN Food Systems Summit 2021: IFPRI Evidence Informing Food Systems Transformation
IFPRI is pleased to be contributing evidence and knowledge from our research across agrifood systems to the UN Food Systems Summit, scheduled for September 2021. Food systems are central to meeting all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and this groundbreaking event will set the course for the transformations necessary to ensure our food systems […]