Search Knowledge for policy

Highlights: Societal attitudes towards GM foods in the MENAT region are predominantly negative. People in the MENAT region have poor levels of knowledge about GM...

The dependence on imports of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for its food needs has increased steadily since the early 1960s, from 10% to about 40%. This import...

Key messages: CHAPTER 1 - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 2.1: UNDERNOURISHMENT AND FOOD INSECURITY Hunger in the Arab States reached its highest value in 2022...

Agrifood systems in the Near East and North Africa are characterized by increasingly degraded natural resources and vulnerability to climate change, rapid population growth and protracted crises...

Climate change and extreme weather events are heightening levels of acute food insecurity and food crises around the world. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and deals...

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...

Highlights: Climate change threatens to decrease cucurbit production by 15%. Availability of plants for medicinal and food purposes is severely affected by climate change. Climate change may...

Nordic Statistics is a collection of comparative Nordic statistics which has existed and been funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers since the mid-1960s. The Nordic Statistics database contains about...

Data on greenhouse gas emissions and removals, sent by countries to UNFCCC and the EU Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism (EU Member States). This data set reflects the GHG...

Highlights: Growth in the Middle East and Central Asia (ME&CA) is slowing, with growth for the region projected at 2.0 percent in 2023 (down from 5.6 percent last year) before...