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Sustainability serves as a normative principle in the context of food policy but also represents a hotly debated arena. Ongoing crises in contemporary agriculture suggest that the current model of food...

Smallholder farmers urgently need innovative solutions to face challenges in food security. This latest report is a collaboration between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food...

In response to the pressing need for innovative solutions to address food security challenges, IFAD, FAO and the Islamic Development Bank mapped 10 countries where smallholder farmers...

This document begins with a description of how farmers’ seed systems and formal systems interact, then discusses some of the challenges facing farmers’ seed systems including climate...

Crops and pasture benefited from favourable rainfall and irrigation conditions in 2022/23, while access to farming inputs improved compared to the previous year and the impact of natural hazards on field...

This summary of evaluation evidence brings together findings from 25 evaluations commissioned by WFP between 2018 and 2023. The summary offers lessons on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment...

This synthesis report presents an updated analysis of the social protection landscape in Asia and the Pacific and identifies priorities for enhancing both food security and nutrition and improving responses to risks...

Since at least the end of World War II, there have been efforts on a global scale to reduce food insecurity through neoliberal, industrial, and technocratic solutions often...

Communities in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change due to their geographic location and subsistence-based livelihoods. Historically, ecological calendars...

Highlights: Benchmarking to improve the sustainability of rice production. Assessment of the sustainability of rice production in Brazil and Cuba. Goal Programming philosophy to evaluate the sustainability of...