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This study explores agrifood security in Latin America and the Caribbean using a composite indicator based on FAO data from 2002 to 2022. Regression and cluster analyses were used...

This chapter focuses on food consumption and dietary diversity among internal migrant households in Kenya using data from a city-wide household survey of Nairobi conducted in 2018. The study...

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...

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...

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...

Small island economies are highly dependent on food imports. Self-sufficiency through food localization is therefore often advocated. Can a small Caribbean island nation...

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...

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...

Highlights: Economic crises take different forms and occur for various
reasons, such as political conflicts and pandemics. What all
these crises have in common is that they cause disruption...

This document aims to guide the design, implementation, and use of studies to value the benefits and costs of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for climate resilience projects. Reliable quantification of the costs and benefits...