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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...

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...

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 online resource data on the impact of the pandemic on livelihoods, access to markets and food security by country in the Caribbean.

Highlights Addressing unhealthy diet, rising incidence of overweight, obesity and diet-related NCDs. Lever 1: Policy interventions at the regional, national and local levels to reduce...

In the current context of climate change, focusing on gender equality in the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can drive improvements in resilience, food security and nutrition. This document...

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor (CVM) is an independent global assessment of the impacts of human-induced climate change in the 21st century. The CVM3 presents the data according to climate scenarios and modelling...