Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Healthy diets have been characterized as responding to four universal principles—nutrient adequacy, dietary diversity, macronutrient balance, and moderation. With rising incomes, diet concerns globally...

There is growing recognition that a better understanding of how food systems respond to crises is critical to build and protect the food security of local populations. But rigorous and reliable methods...

Highlights: Maximizing the “triple-wins” from the agri-food system (i.e., higher productivity and incomes, greater resilience and reducing its environmental footprint) is a complex and multi-faceted challenge, with potentially non-trivial...

Considering the unprecedented trend of rising humanitarian needs and the global food crisis in which climate shocks play a major role, WFP is integrating anticipatory action and social...

This guide is aimed to propose a holistic, systemic, and easy-to-use methodology that is multiscalar, multisectoral, and multidimensional for the M&E of public EAS systems to help identify gaps and pathways to strengthen and reform...

While there is a consensus on the need to transition towards more sustainable food systems, moving from a conceptual approach to a more operational understanding of food systems remains a research...

Assessing benefits and limits of agroecological transitions in different contexts is of foremost importance to steer and manage agroecological transitions and to feed evidence-based advocacy. However, assessing agroecological transitions...

In 2020, several humanitarian agencies issued warnings of worsening food security in countries around the world and raised the possibility of potential famines unless quick action was...

This Technical Review guides the design, implementation and monitoring of school feeding programmes in refugee settings. Nearly a quarter of the world’s children are estimated to live in conflict- or disaster-affected...

This publication presents a coherent Collaborative Framework for Food Systems Transformation that recommends key activities across the food system for accelerating the transition to sustainable food systems. The FS...