Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Sierra Leone, FAO and Viet Nam today signed a South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) agreement aimed at developing the rice sector in the African country.

Should we remove animals from agriculture and our diets altogether? What if all the land that produces animal feed now could instead produce human...

Vegetable production is a key part of nutrition security, but it is increasingly being recognized as a way to provide a much-needed income boost for smallholder farmers too.

Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in the future, and the body of research exploring these challenges is growing rapidly.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require major dietary shifts, such as an increase in fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption.

Healthy bat and bird populations don’t only help to keep the endangered tropical dry forests of northern Peru in equilibrium. For the regions’ farmers of cacao—the main ingredient...

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of this blue planet and plays an essential part in supporting all life on this planet. We rely on the ocean to produce more than half...

Covering almost 20 percent of the earth’s total surface, the Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world, spanning from Africa to Australia. For South Asia, it serves...

If you live in a high-income country — where governments have stringent food safety standards, with staff and budgets for enforcement — you might only...

Oceans are central to Indonesia's prosperity through economic activities including capture fisheries and aquaculture