2023 Food Insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean

This case study describes the testing of a maternal and child health intervention in Gujarat, India, where the rate of mothers giving birth to children at health care facilities (also called institutional delivery) was only 55 percent in 2005. The program, called Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY), sought to incentivize private health care facilities to cater to low-income families. Despite strong political and private sector support, upon evaluation, the program was not found to increase the rate…

This report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) assesses global progress on the food- and agriculture-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2023 report emphasizes how the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and climate change have resulted in severe adverse impacts, halting or reversing progress across several dimensions, including food insecurity and agricultural productivity.  The report analyzes global data and trends across several targets, including global hunger, poverty levels, food prices, land…

This review article from The Lancet summarizes the analyses from volume two of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (DCP3), published by the World Bank, entitled “Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health.” The volume identifies essential cost-effective health interventions that can be scaled up to reduce maternal, newborn, and child deaths, and stillbirths. In this article, the authors summarize the key findings and estimate the effect and cost of expanded implementation of those preventative and therapeutic health interventions. They note that…