Country-level work building on Ceres2030

In 2022, IISD and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), undertook ‘deep dives’ into the nexus of food systems, climate change and diets in three countries: Malawi, Ethiopia and Nigeria. This work builds on the Ceres2030 project and aims to strengthen the evidence base for climate-smart nutrition interventions in food systems. 

It seeks to identify how we can influence consumption patterns through policy interventions that will lead to better environmental and nutritional outcomes. As a first step in this work, IISD and IFPRI produced country diagnostic reports for the three countries. These provide an overview of relevant economic, social and climate (mitigation and adaptation) trends and projections, and key policies in the countries.

IISD (2023) Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis: Summary Report, # 39 p.

This report summarizes the evidence-based and costed country roadmaps for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.

IISD (2022) Country Diagnostic Report: Malawi # 51 p.

This report shows that while agricultural production growth will continue in Malawi, it will not allow the country to achieve its Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets unless significant additional public investments are made to address poverty, promote dietary diversification, and mitigate environmental pressures from agricultural production.

IISD (2022) Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis: Nigeria # 65 p.

This report presents an evidence-based and costed country roadmap for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Nigeria in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.

IISD (2022) Country Diagnostic Report: Nigeria # 42 p.

This report highlights that without additional measures, progress on reducing extreme poverty in Nigeria is expected to stagnate and even reverse slightly, and that chronic hunger is also projected to increase in the country.

IISD (2023) Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis: Ethiopia # 73 p.

This report presents an evidence based and costed country roadmap for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and adapts to climate change.

IISD (2022) Country Diagnostic Report: Ethiopia # 51 p.

This report shows that over the next decade, projected economic growth and the expansion of agricultural production in Ethiopia will contribute to an accelerated trend in the reduction of undernourishment and extreme poverty in the country.