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Background Women’s empowerment interventions represent a key opportunity to improve nutrition-related outcomes. Still, cross-contextual evidence on the factors that cause poorer nutrition outcomes for women and girls...

Background Food group consumption data are useful for measuring and monitoring diet quality. To collect valid data across contexts, consistent and rigorous adaptation of survey...

Malnutrition is hampering achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and requires policy approaches that address food system drivers. However, this will require the adoption of cross-sectoral policy...

Multiple shocks and stresses, such as climate change, pandemics and conflicts, have disrupted global agrifood systems, affecting food security, nutrition, and livelihoods. The COVID-19 pandemic...

Malnutrition is one of the most important early life shocks that have lasting effects on health. An often-neglected cause of malnutrition and hidden hunger is high food inflation, particularly...

Youth engagement is pivotal to the transformation of our agrifood systems. Simultaneously, digital technologies have contributed to the development of our agrifood systems and are an increasingly important part...

This foresight study on pre-emerging and emerging technologies and innovations in agrifood systems was conducted by FAO and CIRAD in response to the increasing frequency of economic, social, political, and environmental upheavals...

We revisit the state of smallholder fertilizer demand and profitability in Ethiopia in the face of the recent global fuel–food–fertilizer price crisis triggered by the Russian–Ukraine war and compounded by other domestic...

It is vital for countries to monitor their population’s diets to inform actions toward improving the health of people and the planet. The healthiness of diets must be tracked in global...

Highlight Case Study 11 deals with Improving Water Availability and Restoring Soil Fertility in the Sahel. In Africa’s Sahel region, where agriculture is the main employment and...