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Current #adaptation projects do not automatically enhance #gender equality | need to be intentionally brought in at planning & implementation stages.

23authors|9sectors|17739 literature|countless meetings

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Embedding gender considerations and facilitating #women’s participation in project design and implementation along with #inclusive #policies, training, information access, planning, and monitoring is needed
Additional course correction for #SDG5 is needed.
Our #SDG5plus (SDG5+) approach takes into consideration #intersectionality and gender aspects beyond #women alone, & can help #adaptation actions move towards meeting #genderequality and other #climatejustice goals.
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💡 How the resetting of corporate control of food systems is already well under way 👇🏾

📰 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

🧵 A thread on #foodsystems & the #UNFSS /1
Few people will dispute that global food systems need transformation, but this #UNFSS is instead an effort by a powerful alliance of multinational corporations, philanthropies, and export-oriented countries to subvert multilateral institutions of food #governance.

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Once Guterres appointed a Special Envoy and the structure of the Summit was announced, the drivers behind the Summit became clear.

🔎 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

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[1/n]. Almost 74.3% of #SouthAsia's #undernourished people resided in #India during 2017-19 as opposed to 78.4% in 2004-06.

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[2/n]. Prevalence of #SevereFoodInsecurity in the country was 15.5% in 2014-16 that climbed up to reach 17.3% in 2017-19.

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[3/n]. Nearly 76% of #SouthAsia's #SeverelyFoodInsecure people lived in #India during 2014-16 as opposed to 77.3% in 2017-19.

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Watch now: Launch of @TheLancet Series on the Double Burden of #Malnutrition with @WHO hosted @CityUniLondon

Hear from @richardhorton1 @DrTedros @DFID_UK & more what findings mean for #nutrition & sustainable development

📽️ hubs.ly/H0mg4lY0
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And we’re off!

@richardhorton1 opens the launch of The Lancet Series on the double burden of #malnutrition with @WHO

“This Series offers some practical and well evidenced recommendations around double duty actions” ImageImage
“@TheLancet series illustrates a new nutrition reality. More and more countries are facing both challenges - #undernutrition and #overweight and #obesity”

Series lead Dr Francesco Branca @WHO introduces the Series #NutritionDecade #NutritionManifesto Image
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A rapid global #nutrition transition is exposing increasing proportions of individuals to different forms of #malnutrition

TONIGHT at 2330 h GMT, we publish a new Series on the Double Burden of Malnutrition co-led by @WHO

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@WHO @CityUniLondon @CorinnaHawkes @Branca59 @SandroDemaio @RachelNugent More than one in three low-income and middle-income countries face both extremes of #malnutrition. NEW Series with @WHO calls for a new global #foodsystems approach to help reduce #undernutrition and #obesity at the same time hubs.ly/H0mfY8f0 Image
@WHO @CityUniLondon @CorinnaHawkes @Branca59 @SandroDemaio @RachelNugent @FoodPolicyCity A package of 10 double-duty actions across different sectors could simultaneously tackle both #undernutrition and problems of #overweight, #obesity, and diet-related #NCDs in a more holisitic way hubs.ly/H0md-120 ImageImageImageImage
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