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...
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High reliance on food imports, unbalanced diets, limited cultivable land, scarce fresh water resources and remoteness are typical food security constraints for Small...
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...
The Asia-Pacific region has seen rapid poverty reduction, having lifted 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty in a few generations. Yet, millions continue...
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...
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This agreement between the EU and its Member States and the Members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States succeeds the Cotonou Agreement and will be known as the “Samoa Agreement”...
WFP’s approach is to support Pacific governments and regional organizations to better anticipate, prepare for and respond to the impacts of climate change and other shocks on food security and nutrition, with a particular...
Recent food system shocks and increasing climate change exposures highlight the urgency of strengthening food systems at different scales, including global, regional and national, to achieve...
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...
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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...