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Background and Aims Food security is a complex and multidimensional issue that has been recognized as a serious public health problem all over the world for the past two decades...

Understanding the impact of changes in temperature and precipitation on crop yields is a vital step in developing policy and management options to feed the world. As most existing studies are limited...

West African countries have made impressive progress in fighting against malnutrition and hunger and ensuring food quality and varying food choices. This paper aimed for the first...

Highlights Spatiotemporal forecasting is a key process in the management of locusts. Forecasts can be used at different risk levels from locust presence to impacts. Reproducible forecasting...

FAO is focusing its attention on the pursuit of healthy diets and transformations of agrifood systems to ensure healthy diets are affordable for all. Measuring and systematically monitoring the cost...

Assessing the extent of food insecurity has always been problematic because of delays in availability and the low precision of food consumption data from surveys. Assessments based on the ‘Food...

Existing evidence indicates that, worldwide, most of the poor live in rural areas and that agriculture and natural resource management are central to the livelihoods and food security of this population...

Description Food Security, Poverty and Nutrition Policy Analysis: Statistical Methods and Applications, Third Edition combines statistical data analysis and computer literacy, applying the...