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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...

Markets for agricultural products continue to be affected by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the evolving conflicts in the Middle East, climate change and other events. Export...

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...

WFP works closely with the Government to enhance the nutrition sensitivity of social safety net programmes and directly provides life-saving nutrition assistance to Rohingya refugees and vulnerable Bangladeshi...

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...

ACAPS’ analysts considered nine variables (under three pillars or dimensions) to compare humanitarian access constraints across 82 countries with active humanitarian crises. In this report...

Countries in crisis requiring external assistance for food are expected to lack the resources to deal with reported critical problems of food insecurity. The list below covers crises...