Our food systems are facing increasing pressure. With climate shocks, rising food prices, and higher rates of malnutrition, the challenges are becoming more profound. Today, more people are experiencing hunger than ever before.
However, it doesn’t have to be this way. The global community possesses the knowledge, tools, and opportunity to eradicate hunger and poverty in nutritious, equitable, and sustainable ways within the next decade.
Now is the time to take action. Let’s invest in solutions that strengthen our food systems and ensure access to good food for everyone.
Can the agricultural development community end hunger differently?
Building on the legacy of Ceres2030, which provided donors with a clear roadmap to eradicate hunger and improve the incomes and productivity of small-scale producers while protecting the climate, Hesat2030 expands the focus to emphasise nutrition-sensitive interventions across the entire agrifood system. By targeting every stage from production to consumption and bundling components to improve diet quality, Hesat2030 seeks to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition.
Developed by Carin Smaller, Jaron Porciello, David Laborde, Elsa Olivetti, and Oshani Perera, this report presents donors and governments in low-income countries with 10 high-impact, nutrition-sensitive interventions within agrifood systems to help end hunger and all forms of malnutrition. It highlights the promotion of healthy diets as essential, though not sufficient on its own, for addressing various forms of malnutrition. These interventions work best when bundled and must be implemented as part of a coordinated, multi-sector response that includes health, education, water, sanitation, hygiene, and social protection. This response should be intentional, strategic, and long-term.
The report also emphasises the critical role of blended finance – the leveraging of public or philanthropic investments to encourage larger investments from private sources of finance – to scale up these interventions.
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Hesat2030, IFPRI and the Shamba Centre’s Country Roadmaps
To support this transformation, researchers from Hesat2030, IFPRI and the Shamba Centre for Food and Climate, in collaboration with the Zero Hunger Coalition and national governments, have developed evidence-based, investment-ready roadmaps. These tailored plans offer a costed portfolio of interventions aligned with national priorities, all aimed at achieving five interconnected outcomes.
GLOPAN’S building resilience and enhancing nutrition in Africa’s food systems
This research from the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, in collaboration with the governments of Ethiopia, Malawi and Sierra Leone, identifies strategies to increase countries’ ability to deliver healthy diets for all while building resilience to future shocks. Download here.
World Bank Regional Investment Estimates
Building off of the 2024 Investment Framework for Nutrition, the World Bank is generating regional and subregional estimates of the investment needed to scale a package of essential nutrition interventions from baseline to 90% coverage over the next 10 years. These estimates will be available in autumn 2025.
Now is the time to take action. Let’s invest in solutions that strengthen our food systems and ensure access to good food for everyone
