Propelled by a shared vision of reaching global food and nutrition security, IFPRI and the United Nations (UN) has been actively engaging, from research projects to high-level exchanges, more specifically the three Rome-based UN agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP). IFPRI has been partnering on issues such as improving smallholder productivity, improving nutrition security, enhancing agriculture’s linkages to nutrition and health, evaluating social safety nets, and analyzing information systems under the G-20 to ensure they provide useful market information.
This IFPRI-UN partnership is continually being strengthened to focus on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. IFPRI’s research will be integral in delivering sound evidence-based conclusions that will help guide work towards the SDGs.
During IFPRI’s 40th Anniversary event David Nabarro, Special Representative of the UN Sectary General for Food Security and Nutrition congratulated IFPRI and emphasized the need for research moving forward. He stated:
“IFPRI has long been a leader in [food and nutrition security and livelihoods] work. [Its] 2020 vision commits [it] to continued leadership in ending hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI has helped nations be comfortable with the linkages in the 2030 Agenda and with the targets that are within the Sustainable Development Goals…Please continue in that excellent pattern by focusing IFPRI’s efforts on the intersection of food security and nutrition…”
