A policy-centred approach to prioritize effective interventions to end hunger

Achieving the 2030 Agenda and the goals on addressing hunger, such as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, integrated and policy-relevant tools are needed to identify specific interventions and costs to assist with SDG 2 and another SDG implementation. Motivated by the need for tools to support evidence-based policy-making, three partner organizations—Cornell University, the International Food Policy Research Institute and the International Institute for Sustainable Development—formed a three-year partnership in 2018 called Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger, with a focus on the targets of SDG 2. Drawing from the results from Ceres2030, this paper helps broadens the evidence base for effective interventions using a top-down macroeconomic model to evaluate and cost a portfolio of diverse actions, related trade-offs, and synergies to achieve the SDG targets. In addition, the research also assists by outlining ways of combining grey and peer- reviewed literature to improve evidence-based decision making by assisting policy-makers and donor agencies in allocating costs to policy options over the next decade necessary to achieve SDG 2 targets.