A lasting win against food insecurity

Astrid Garcia 14 April 2026 blog  

At the height of uncertainty, many families arriving in Colombia faced a daily question: Will we eat today?

For Marisol, a mother of three, food was never just about hunger. It was about responsibility. In the early months after migrating, stretching the household budget required constant calculation. “Sometimes I reduced my own portions so my children could eat,” she recalls.

A resource for transforming food systems has gone dormant: our (formerly) living Evidence and Gap Map

Ingunn Storhaug 18 August 2025 blog  

Staying up-to-date with the latest research on food systems and nutrition is more important than ever to work towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2025 SDG report calls for action on food systems as one of six critical areas. My colleagues recently argued that a systems approach is needed to achieve the 2nd SDG, ending hunger.

The systems challenge behind ending hunger: Why SDG 2 requires more than food

Esteban J Quiñones, Heather van Buskirk, Carolyn Huang 04 July 2025 blog  

The recent 2025 Global Food Policy Report, launched on World Hunger Day, highlights unprecedented progress in reducing hunger and poverty over the last 50 years. However, the goal of zero hunger is at risk. The UN currently assesses Sustainable Development Goal 2 to be the only SDG that no member state has achieved nor is on track to achieve in the next five years.

Tackling food insecurity and malnutrition while building resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: what works?

Etienne Lwamba, Ingunn Storhaug, Pierre Marion, Suvarna Pande, Diana Belén Córdova-Aráuz, Shannon Shisler, Esteban J Quiñones, Anna Sting, Dr. Cornelia Roemling 20 May 2025 blog  

An upcoming rapid evidence assessment of the effects of information, capacity strengthening, and behaviour change interventions

Updating the evidence base on humanitarian food security interventions — share your impact evaluations

Cem Yavuz, Katie Pons 13 August 2024 blog  
With an estimated 300 million people needing humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024, understanding which interventions are most effective is more important than ever. But how do we find evidence on interventions to inform our decision-making and understanding?

Improving women’s empowerment through food systems and nutrition interventions

Sanghwa Lee, Etienne Lwamba, Ashiqun Nabi, Ingunn Storhaug, Pierre Marion 05 August 2024 blog  
Food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition persist globally, with 783 million people facing chronic hunger in 2023. Women are particularly affected, making up 60 percent of the food-insecure population. Restrictive gender norms and inequalities further affect women’s food security, health, and rights.

Final update to living food systems E&GM: New studies address gender-transformative interventions and food loss outcomes

Ingunn Storhaug, Mark Engelbert 16 July 2024 blog  
In our eighth and final scheduled update to 3ie’s living food systems evidence and gap map (E&GM), we add 307 new impact evaluations and eight new systematic reviews, bringing the total number of studies in the map to 3,218.

3ie's living Food Systems Evidence and Gap Map: Now expanded with social assistance and social insurance interventions

Ingunn Storhaug, Mark Engelbert 13 May 2024 blog  
Our latest update of the living food systems evidence and gap map (E&GM) focuses on the addition of multiple new social assistance and social insurance intervention categories that we added to the map for the first time.

Assessing the effectiveness of food security and nutrition interventions on gender transformative outcomes

Etienne Lwamba, Kishore Basak, Ashiqun Nabi, Pierre Marion, Ingunn Storhaug 16 April 2024 blog  
In 2023, 735 million individuals worldwide experienced hunger, and 258 million people across 58 countries and territories faced acute food insecurity at crisis or worse levels. With 60% of them comprising women, the gender gap in food insecurity continues to widen.

Strengthening Cote d'Ivoire's nutrition strategy with rapid evidence

Annie Vincent, Paul Thissen 08 February 2024 blog  
Côte d'Ivoire faces substantial nutritional challenges, with 17 percent of children under five experiencing stunting and over six percent exhibiting wasting in 2021. Overall, 18 percent of the population grapples with the imminent threat of acute food insecurity. In addition, many communities lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation, which can transmit diseases such as cholera, dysentery and polio. Recurrent infections can also be a major cause of malnutrition and child stunting. 3ie’s WACIE Helpdesk supported the government’s response to the crisis by providing up-to-date evidence to inform and improve its strategy.