Activity

Activity Description

Emphasizing the importance of child mortality and maternal health to international development, the Millennium Development Goals represent a global commitment to poverty and hunger eradication. The current abrupt increase in food prices threatens progress made in these areas and could prove a serious barrier to achievement of these goals. The Institute of Medicine convened an ad hoc committee to plan and conduct a three-day workshop to explore the implications of the global food crisis on nutrition and health.

Workshop presenters described the pathways to, and impacts and trade-offs of, rising food prices. In addition, potential gaps in surveillance, data collection, and monitoring and evaluation were also considered. An individually-authored workshop summary of the meeting will be prepared. The workshop was held on July 14 - 16, 2009 at the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, DC.

This project is a joint activity of the Board on Global Health and the Food and Nutrition Board in collaboration with the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.