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Highlights: The report presents six detailed operational and technical recommendations and targets for adaptation, mitigation, and finance for agrifood systems that align with those of USAID’s 2022–2030 Climate Strategy...

Key Messages: Global action on the climate crisis is nowhere near the scale and commitment required to limit warming to 1.5°C. Urgent and far-reaching action to transform food systems...

This report by IPES-Food, documents a history of growing corporate influence over the governance of the food system. As transnational food and farming companies grow ever bigger, they have...

Food safety is attained when foods are handled, processed and stored in a manner that effectively reduces the risk of exposure of an individual to hazards capable of causing foodborne illness...

The Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) has been published annually since 2013 by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). It has grown to be an important...

Alongside many positive impacts, our food systems have increasingly affected health through multiple, interconnected pathways, generating severe human and economic costs...

In the spirit of the UN Framework for the Immediate Socio-economic Response to COVID-19, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has teamed up with the renowned International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)...

In 2016, IPES-Food set out to understand why food systems were so resistant to change. The resulting report, From Uniformity to Diversity, found that one key imperative...

The COVID-19 health crisis has brought on an economic crisis, and is rapidly exacerbating an ongoing food security and nutrition crisis. In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has laid bare...

This report argues for a Common Food Policy for the European Union: a policy setting a direction of travel for the whole food system, bringing together the various sectoral policies that affect...