Part of a series on key themes of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report.
Enhancing access to affordable, healthy, and diverse diets is an important and growing policy priority around the world as many countries face public health problems of malnutrition and diet-related non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, as well as challenges from climate change, conflict, and other stresses on food systems. But expanding access to nutritious foods is impossible to achieve without at the same time strengthening institutions and relationships across public, private and civil society partners. With World Food Day 2024 (October 16) approaching, this challenge is more urgent than ever.
This key issue of better governance is highlighted in Chapter 8 of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report, with an emphasis on three dimensions critical for bolstering diets and nutrition: Strengthening state capacities, improving corporate accountability, and fostering citizen agency in decisions about healthy foods. As seen in Figure 1 below, these three dimensions also interact with each other, ideally creating important positive feedback loops affecting all aspects of food system transformation.