JRC and IFPRI join efforts on food security and nutrition for vulnerable communities

The JRC and the IFPRI will work together on the development of innovative and cost-effective approaches and will explore possible research projects to improve the analysis of food security, nutrition, and resilience of smallholder farmers.

The cooperation reflects the JRC’s activities to address the challenges to ensure global food availability, including support to the mainly prevalent small-scale mixed crop/livestock farming systems and facilitating access to innovation for farmers.

The arrangement was signed by JRC Director-General Vladimir Šucha and IFPRI Director-General Shenggen Fan during the conference Going the Last Mile: Accelerating Progress in Food Security and Nutrition on 14 June in Brussels.

The conference, focusing on case studies and best in-the-field practices for improving nutrition and food security in developing countries was jointly organised by the IFPRI, the JRC, the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development, the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and HarvestPlus.

Image: JRC Director-General Vladimir Šucha and IFPRI Director-General Shenggen Fan sign the collaboration arrangement.
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