Highlights: Sustainable Development Goal 2.1: Undernourishment and Food Insecurity The prevalence of undernourishment in the Asia and the Pacific region decreased to 8.4 percent in 2022 from 8.8 percent of the previous...
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Fertilizer was the most important factor in maize production.
Fertilizer was found to be the cause for decrease in pH.
No-tillage had a positive effect...
A Double Burden: The effects of food price increases and currency depreciations on food import bills
The price of food has increased everywhere, reaching historic levels in 2022. This is a challenge for food security globally, but particularly for net food-importing developing countries. And unlike in previous...
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Hunger in the Arab region has continued to rise since 2014 . The number of undernourished people reached 69 million in 2020, or 15.8 percent...
Overview of the Chinese fishing fleet, aquaculture, and trade
There is a large discrepancy and uncertainty in the number of vessels of the Chinese distant water fleets (DWFs). The low estimate of ‘visible’...
The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Asia and the Pacific
Within the generic scope of the Regional Assessments of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, particular challenges found across the Asia-Pacific region include climate change (particularly sea-level rise...
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Nutrition transitions and urbanization are ushering overnutrition and NCDs.
Climate change, land pressures, and environmental degradation are threatening food security progress.
Agrobiodiversity...
The effect of bureaucratic corruption on household food insecurity: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Corruption is a worldwide phenomenon, but the crisis seems to have no bounds in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the absurdity has penetrated and continues to impair the public service sector. As long...
Approximately one-third of the people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region live in drought-prone areas. Meteorological drought causes substantial socio-economic hardships, decline in public...
A new report, released today by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has revealed that close to 44.8 million people in urban and rural areas across 13...