The Global Food Policy 2018 report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has revealed that despite recent food policy efforts, the number of undernourished people have been on the rise since 2015.
The report obtained from Food Tank website attributed the increase to failures in food policy reform due to a lack of international cooperation.
Furthermore, the report finds that international cooperation through governance and trade can reform the food system and reduce the number of undernourished people in 2018.
The report assembles the research of experts in a collection of essays, focusing on new developments in food policy and new methods to evaluate hunger and malnutrition.
Regional sections follow these topics evaluating regional trends in 2017 and predicted trends in 2018.
According to the IFPRI, governments focused on eliminating hunger must avoid protectionist and anti-globalization policies pertaining to the flow of goods, investments, people, and information.
This would allows the international community to tackle the root causes of hunger and poverty such as price invariability, lack of infrastructure, forced or unstable migration, and lack of data.
According to Shenggen Fan, Director General of the IFPRI, “global cooperation to enact policies that leverage the benefits of globalization while minimizing its risks will be key to achieving food security