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 | Photo Caption Here Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition IFPRI and FAO organized a three-day global event, and provided a platform to accelerate the sharing of knowledge, approaches and innovations that can help lead to rapid reductions in hunger and malnutrition. (Conference Website) |
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| How to Accelerate: We can end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 if we invest in accelerators – the policies, interventions, or innovations (or combinations thereof) – that overcome barriers to progress. Learn more about the proven and promising accelerators that can help us reach this goal. (Accelerators Note). |
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| On the Agenda: A packed program featured high-level policymakers, program implementers, researchers, donor agencies, and more from around the world. (Full Program). |
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| Sidelines Headlines: Side events proved a major attraction, including new global reports from SUN and the World Bank, and key conversations on global, to national, to local approaches for creating environments that enable healthy diets. (Side Events) |
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| Acceleration Fair: A physical and online space where participants continue to exchange ideas, novel approaches, and technologies on accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition. (Resources | E-posters) |
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Live from BKK: More than 40 global leaders, policymakers, experts and entrepreneurs shared their ideas on accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition with IFPRI’s global audience through Facebook Live interviews with IFPRI and our youth correspondent. (Videos)
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 “The power of nutrition…applies to whole nations, as more and more political leaders realize their human capital is so much greater if their population is well-nourished. Nutrition is a powerful asset for every one of the 7 billion people in the world.” – David Nabarro, Director, 4SD (Video)
“Ultimately the people and the consumers are the accelerators, because it’s our behaviors [that] shape our health and what the food system puts in front of us.” – Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (Video)
“We should propose an accelerator to redirect urban food environments towards healthier diets and to achieve double duty: interventions and actions that address both the undernutrition and the overnutrition problems at the same time.” – Marie Ruel, Division Director, IFPRI (Video)
“The uncomfortable question is not why are things so bad, but why are things not better when we know so much more than before?” – Corinna Hawkes, Director, Centre for Food Policy, City University of London (Video) |
“We must use nutrition as an opportunity to transform agriculture, promote economic growth, improve human capital” – Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (Video)
“I worry we might run into fights about ‘my accelerator is better than your accelerator’…but there are no property rights when it comes to ending hunger and malnutrition.” – Prabhu Pingali, Professor and Director, Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI), Cornell University (Video)
“Local governments are a big source of potential investment in nutrition. We need to make sure that nutrition is in the development agenda of local government units.” Maria Lourdes A. Vega, Chief, Nutrition Policy and Planning Division, National Nutrition Council, Philippines. (Video)
“Nutrition is the foundation of human excellence. We must aspire for all people, especially children, to have good nutrition to be the best they can be.” Gao Min, Chairwoman StarPower Charity Foundation, People’s Republic of China and two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in Diving. (Video) |
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| Winners Take All: In a global video competition young people from more than 10 countries in five continents submitted their ideas to accelerate the end of hunger and malnutrition. Winning videos were premiered at the conference. (Meet the Winners) |
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