IFPRI’s Flagship Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2015 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2016. This year’s report takes a special look at how food systems can best contribute to meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This paper examines the different approaches and methodologies for classification of countries in terms of their food and nutrition security conditions. Its objective is to identify a number of country groups and thus provide some guidance about potential policies to address food and nutrition insecurity.

Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide in terms of lives lost, forgone productivity, healthcare spending, and reduced lifetime earnings. In India, nutrition policies recognize the multifaceted nature of interventions necessary to accelerate progress in nutrition.

Literature on macroeconomics is often technical, includes different approaches, and consists of many controversial ideas and methodologies.

The level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent since 2000. While the world has made progress in reducing hunger in recent decades, the state of hunger is still serious or alarming in 52 countries.

Children whose growth is stunted, people who don’t get enough vitamins and minerals for a healthy life, adults who are overweight and obese—malnutrition takes many forms and affects every country on earth. A problem of staggering size, malnutrition is widespread enough to threaten the world’s sustainable development ambitions.

In India, policies are in place to address the set of nutrition-specific interventions that will accelerate progress in nutrition, if implemented at scale.

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events.

Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment.

This first ever Global Nutrition Report with comprehensive narrative on levels of malnutrition across the world will be a centerpiece of the Second International Conference on Nutrition

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