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Highlights: Global evidence suggests that land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to the challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural...

This publication presents some examples in which recommendations from the SMC’s White Paper on Planet Friendly School Meals on transforming food systems by promoting healthy diets, sustainable...

Highlights: The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for countries eligible for financing from the International Development Association (IDA), the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. The...

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...

KEY MESSAGES: The food crisis is growing and is highly exacerbated by insecurity, inflation and the adverse effects of climate change The 2022-2023 agropastoral season was generally satisfactory, but...

The Russian Federation’s war with Ukraine has triggered a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and threatened the stability of geopolitical relations. Economic output in the Europe and Central Asia region is forecast...

We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated...

The brief outlines evidence underscoring the critical role of food security in a global AIDS response. Food security has been proven yet again to reduce HIV...

The ripple effects of the war in Ukraine have disrupted energy and food markets. Among many other factors, supply chain disruptions and price spikes in key commodities...

The Russian Federation and Ukraine are among the most important producers of agricultural commodities in the world. Both countries are net exporters of agricultural products, and they both...