Ifpri Podcast

The world is facing a new nutrition reality in which persistent undernutrition and escalating overweight and obesity coexist within countries, communities, households, and individuals. This double burden of malnutrition brings a set of new challenges for policy and programming. This seminar presented new global evidence on the magnitude of the double burden of malnutrition, describe the interconnected biological, societal, and ecological drivers of it, and propose a way forward on designing and estimating the cost-effectiveness of double-duty actions to tackle multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously. The COVID-19 pandemic exemplifies the urgency of re-thinking nutrition policy and programming to tackle the new nutrition reality. Introduction: Francesco Branca, Director, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD), World Health Organization (WHO) Speakers: Corinna Hawkes, Director, Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London Rachel Nugent, Vice President and Director, Center for Gl