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This brief is a product of an ongoing collaboration between FAO, People and Plants International, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), It reviews literature...

This review aims to explore the role of food fortification as a critical public health strategy to combat global micronutrient deficiencies, which affect more than 2 billion people...

Across the globe, small-scale farmers are increasingly adopting agroecology and agroforestry as sustainable farming methods that enhance food and nutritional security while minimising chemical inputs...

Since 2020, the World Bank, FAO, and others have measured a population's access to sufficient nutritious food for an active and healthy life using a new metric known as the Cost...

Highlights: Sufficient food is available in terms of calories, but not healthy diets. We compare quantities to Healthy Diet Basket targets used to monitor food access...

Highlights: The world is still far off track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger. Around 28.9% of the global population, or 2.33 billion people...

Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing disproportional increases in overweight or obesity rates. Parallel to this trend, many LMICs are witnessing significant growth in their...

Biofortification was coined as a term to define a plant breeding strategy to increase the micronutrient content of staple food crops to reduce the burden of micronutrient deficiencies in low- and middle-income...

Highlight: Extensive fertilizer use boosts yields but risks environmental harm and nutrient imbalance. Inefficient fertilizer use threatens food security and leads to soil degradation...

At present, the world is off-track to meet the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for 2025. Reducing the prevalence of stunting and low birthweight (LBW) in children, and anaemia in women...