Connecting Farmers to City Dwellers - A Review of IFPRI's Global Food Policy Report 2017
Highlights from IFPRI's 2017 Food Policy Report: Part 1 Original link to the report is here: http://www.ifpri.org/publication/food-security-and-nutrition-growing-cities-new-challenges How hungry is the world today? Are more people suffering from hunger today than 50 years ago? What can be done about the hunger that remains so visible in our world today? Where is work being done, and who can we look to for the best practices in solving this grand problem? These are questions that the International Food Policy Research Institute ’s (IFPRI) recently published Global Food Policy Report 2017 seeks to answer. Its meticulous efforts of gathering data now point to a positive trend! Global Hunger affects now 11 percent, down from 19 percent in 1990. While this is certainly progress, this 770+ million-strong collection of individuals still presents a major challenge to the international humanitarian landscape. We spent some time reading through the IFPRI's report and wanted to highligh...