Improving village chicken production to elevate livelihoods of poor people in Ethiopia project, field visit in May 2014 (photo credit: ILRI/Wondmeneh Esatu).

Nourishing nations: Transforming Africa’s food systems through a planetary and population health lens

Demonstrate the power and potential of food policy to address the global syndemic and drive healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems transformation. This is an opportunity to share learnings from country experiences on how to design national food policy bundles that support the scaling of environmentally sustainable production and equitable distribution of social and economic benefits while ensuring the consumption of healthy, affordable, and safe foods.

Organizers: IDRC, the International Development Law Organization and the Rockefeller Foundation