Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Numerous overlapping ecological, socio-political, and economic shocks and stresses acting across multiple scales have culminated in a polycrisis that threatens agriculture and food systems worldwide. As primary...

Hunger and malnutrition remain critical developmental challenges in Central America. Since 2020, rates of moderate and severe food insecurity have risen across the region, while key...

This study explores agrifood security in Latin America and the Caribbean using a composite indicator based on FAO data from 2002 to 2022. Regression and cluster analyses were used...

Highlights: Jointly prepared by the World Bank, the World Food Programme of the United Nations (WFP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this report examines how...

Limited food access, combined with high food prices and climate variability are driving 922,000 people (8 percent of the population analysed) into high levels of acute...

Through 12 case studies, this report examines how the Fill the Nutrient Gap (FNG) analyses can be leveraged to enhance the ability of national social protection...

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 Mid-Year Update is an update of the GRFC 2024 and provides the latest data on acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition as of August...

Highlights: The affordability gap shows how far people are from being able to afford the lowest-cost nutrient-adequate diet. Calculating the affordability gap at the subnational level can...

This article is concerned with the affordability gap, or as the authors put it, the magnitude of the gap between food expenditure and the lowest cost of meeting nutrient needs. A visualisation of the affordability gap...

The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute...