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At the request of the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) visited the country from 7 to 21 December 2024...

Highligths: Area planted with cereals in 2024/25 is estimated to be 2.9 percent below the previous five-year average, due to below-average rainfall amounts at planting time, farmers'...

Africa's rapid population growth, urbanization, and rising incomes have led to a growing demand for processed foods. The continent's economic growth has contributed to its rapid...

This reports presents the findings of a joint project of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) and the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), which focuses on whether agricultural and woody biomass combined...

The forest-based industries and the energy production sector are intricately interlinked through both synergistic and competitive behaviour. Sawmilling by-products are used for wood pulp (for...

Highlights: We assess fertilizer demand and profitability amid fuel–food–fertilizer price crisis. Smallholder farmers are more responsive to fertilizer prices than to output prices. Share...

At the request of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), a joint FAO/WFP CFSAM visited the country from 15 to 28 July 2024 to estimate the 2024 crop production, identify factors that affected...

Digital innovations hold significant potential to address multiple forms of market failures. However, their adoption remains low and heterogenous across Africa. Smallholder farmers...

This background paper to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 analyses a key element of agrifood systems transformation: the change of patterns in food supply and demand. Several...

With 2024 likely to rank among the warmest years on record, weather continued to dom- inate commodity market news in recent weeks, in both positive and negative ways...