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Understanding the economic costs attributable to unhealthy diets is crucial to inform health and agrifood investments in low- and middle-income countries experiencing nutrition transition. To review the current evidence...

Highlights: Inequitable access to nutritious diets, nutrition services and positive nutrition and care practices has compounded global gender inequality, undermining women’s and girls’ ability...

As both a cause and a victim of climate change, the interconnected food, land and water systems must undergo rapid, far-reaching, and sustained transformation. Measuring, mobilising and dispersing climate...

Food systems transformation lies at the heart of climate action. Current food, climate and environment challenges are deeply interconnected, meaning solutions must address all...

On 20 and 21 October 2023, more than 70 donors and investors met in Rome in advance of the Committee on World Food Security deliberations to discuss how to boost food...

Highlights: Ensuring an adequate flow of climate finance to agrifood systems is key to implementing the necessary transformation of these systems, in order to contribute to mitigation and adaptation efforts and pursue...

Highlights: This study develops a marginal abatement cost curve for hunger reduction. Twenty-two different interventions are considered for reducing undernourishment. Several low-cost investment options...

Speech at the COP28 Climate and Health Ministerial meeting by Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal

In recent times, scientists and economic policy authorities have been promoting viable solutions to address global emergencies related to human-caused climate change. In particular, there...