The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), organised a national stakeholder consultation workshop on May 18 and 19 in Kathmandu, to review the United States Government’s (USG) Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) Nepal Country Plan. 

The workshop saw participation from over 80 national representatives and key stakeholders in diverse thematic discussions encompassing risk and resilience capacity, food system innovation, markets and trade, food system outputs and outcomes, and food system governance and control, reads the press release issued by the organisation. 

The GFSS is an integrated whole-of-government approach that aims to end global hunger, poverty, and malnutrition through the Feed the Future initiative. (PR)