Publications

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released its highly anticipated 2025 Global Food Policy Report, titled Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World, edited by Johan Swinnen and Christopher B. Barrett.

Over the past five decades, global food systems have undergone profound transformation. Throughout this period, food policy research has played a vital role in informing decisions that promote agricultural growth, improve livelihoods, and enhance food security and nutrition worldwide.

This latest edition of the Global Food Policy Report reflects on the evolution and impact of food policy research and explores how it can better support policymakers in addressing emerging challenges and opportunities. The report’s chapters offer critical insights and identify priority research areas through 2050.

Featured Chapter: Agricultural Extension Services – From Transfer of Technology to Facilitation for Innovation

Chapter 8, titled Agricultural Extension Services: From Transfer of Technology to Facilitation for Innovation, highlights the evolving role of agricultural extension and rural advisory services in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Authored by Kristin Davis, Rikin Gandhi, Jawoo Koo, Berber Kramer, Alesha Miller, Jona Repishti, David J. Spielman, and Rasheed Sulaiman V., the chapter examines the transition from traditional top-down approaches to a more inclusive and innovation-driven model.

Drawing on IFPRI’s “best fit” framework, the authors analyze how extension services have become increasingly pluralistic—incorporating diverse methods and actors—to better support farmers in boosting productivity, strengthening resilience, and conserving essential natural resources.

To read this chapter, click on the link below:

https://cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/53dc42c6-43e6-4c64-8d1f-89f3429f3bb0/content

To read the full report, click here: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/c55dd818-5f9b-4536-b552-7c37b094030d/content

To read the synopsis, click here: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/270d3c16-d2b1-4640-ba39-58fd7c21cc87/content

To register for the online launch event on 28 May 2025 (6.30 PM India Time), click here:

https://www.ifpri.org/event/2025-global-food-policy-report-food-policy-research-for-a-brighter-future-looking-towards-2050/

FAO opens the second edition of the Farmer Field Schools Innovation Award! Applications can be submitted in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. According to Jordan Houegban (OIN FAO), this award celebrates innovative solutions implemented through Farmer Field Schools (FFS) that contribute to sustainable agrifood systems, promote agroecological transitions, strengthen local economies, and drive social inclusion. The award offers not only recognition and visibility, but also mentorship and the opportunity to showcase your innovation at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum in Rome, October 2025.

More information about this, can be accessed through this link: https://www.fao.org/science-technology-and-innovation/ffs-innovation-award-2025/en

When : October, 29Th – 30Th 2024

Where : International Conference Center IPB & Zoom Meeting

Toward Sustanable Agri-food System, Robust Agriculture 4.0 and Inclusive Community Development

Dietary guidelines are essential for each country to develop. More than 100 countries have developed dietary guidelines. The international community has recognized the potential and need for dietary guidelines to advance the transformation of food systems towards desirability and influence policy beyond the scope of consumer education. However, there is currently a lack of global guidance and tools to facilitate this. RASSEA, RELASER in collaboration with FAO on April 30 2024, held a webinar on dietary guidelines. This webinar presents speakers from FAO and the National Food Agency of the Republic of Indonesia.

FAO presented as speakers Ana Islas Ramos, Nutrition Officer Food and Nutrition Division, FAO and Rinna Syawal from the National Food Agency, who delivered material related to the food consumption situation and implementation of B2SA in Indonesia.

This webinar concludes several things as follows:

1. Good nutrition starts with what we eat, making healthy diets a cornerstone solution for addressing all forms of malnutrition
2. The international community has recognized the potential and need for dietary guidelines to catalyze food systems’ transformation towards sustainability and influence policies beyond consumer education’s scope. However, there is currently a lack of global guidance and tools to facilitate this.
3. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has developed the new food systems-based dietary guidelines (FSBDGs) methodology through a collaborative process involving multiple global, regional, and country-level experts to fill this gap.
4. Dietary guidelines are evidence-based recommendations that outline what a healthy diet represents in a country
5. Dietary Guidelines have  a vast potential to promote healthy diets  from sustainable food systems by informing policies, programmes and investments throughout the food system
6. Dietary guidelines must be better developed, communicated, implemented and evaluated to unpack their potential. In particular, they need to embrace a food systems approach to diets
7. There is a growing international demand for dietary guidelines to integrate sustainability considerations. It is not an option but a need
8. More than 100 countries have developed  Dietary guidelines; it is time we see the results of these efforts in terms of behaviour change and food system transformation on the ground
9. Ag extension and RAS stakeholders have a role to play in the FSBDGs to bring about  new ways of thinking and acting about food systems for healthy diets and sustainability
10. Indonesia has several related regulations regarding dietary guidelines
11. Indonesia is developing the concept of diverse, nutritious, balanced and safe food (in Bahasa B2SA).
12. B2SA is a variety of foods that must be consumed in balanced quantities, following recommended nutritional adequacy and free from physical, chemical and biological contamination
13. B2SA doesn’t have to be expensive and can take advantage of local food that is easily accessible.

Webinar materials on dietary guidelines can be downloaded below:

How to Develop and Implement Dietary Guidelines with a Food Systems Approach: FAO Food systems-based dietary guidelines: Entry points for Ag Extension and RAS – Ana Islas Ramos

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Situasi Konsumsi Pangan dan Implementasi B2SA di Indonesia (Current Status of The Dietary and B2SA Implementation in Indonesia) – Rinna Syawal

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Wishing you a prosperous New Year

filled with happiness and new opportunities.