Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The report explores sourcing less and better meat as a potential strategy to mitigate climate change impacts, noting how the concept has gained traction in recent years...

Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are compared. The sharp...

Highlights: Mergers and acquisitions are driving concentration in the global food system. The majority of food systems mergers and acquisitions are horizontal (within the same sub-sector) The majority...

Over the course of the last several decades, nanotechnology has garnered a growing amount of attention as a potentially valuable technology that has significantly impacted the food industry. Nanotechnology...

The food price crisis is entering a dangerous new phase – a debt crisis that could plunge millions more into hunger. Facing structurally higher costs for imports...

A rapid land use transition is coming, which will be just as profound as the energy transition. Any chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius requires...

Food value chains (FVCs) in developing countries are transforming rapidly, with some regions in the modern stage (led by supermarkets and large processors) and other regions in a transitional...

Highlights Alternative protein sources are viewed to be more sustainable than animal proteins. Potential replacers for animal proteins need to have similar functional...

Livest ock contributes to the livelihoods of 1.7 billion smallholder farme rs in the Global South, and plays a crucial economic role for approximately 60% of rural households in developing...

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and smart contracts provide a unique opportunity to bring greater efficiency, transparency and traceability to the exchange of value and information in the agriculture sector. This paper...