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The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the macroeconomic outlook...

Since the discovery of aflatoxins in the 1960s, knowledge in the mycotoxin research field has increased dramatically. Hundreds of review articles have been published summarizing many different aspects...

Highlights: Jordan has prudently navigated difficult times, showing resilience in the face of several external shocks. Despite the growth recovery, entrenched structural constraints continue...

Fragility has become a prevailing reality in an increasing number of countries in various areas, including Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA). The concept of fragility encompasses...

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is an important component in the transformation of the region’s agrifood systems. Addressing the drivers of FLW along value chains provides an opportunity to tackle...

This paper surveys the status of refugee entrepreneurs in several world regions and offers a menu of possible actions that governments, development partners, and private sector actors (including local...

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...

Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...

The Mid-Year Update of the Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that 238 million people are facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 48...