New IFPRI policy brief outlines seven key measures for the international community Seven key initiatives for preventing a recurring food crisis View more presentations from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Just three years after the 2007-08 food crisis, the food security of poor people and vulnerable groups, especially women and children, is under threat [...]

Global food insecurity remains a serious problem. In 2010, more than 900 million people are still hungry, and progress toward reaching the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the world’s proportion of malnourished people is off track by a wide margin. But the global environment within which food insecurity persists is changing in important ways. [...]