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To enhance the resilience of food systems to food safety risks, it is vitally important for national authorities and international organizations to be able to identify early signals of emerging...

This report, developed by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, identifies emerging technology innovations that have the potential to drive rapid progress in the sustainability, inclusivity...

Highlights Food sustainability is currently under unprecedented challenges worldwide. Sustainable innovations and technological solutions are urgently needed. Green technologies and Industry 4.0...

Increasingly plentiful data and powerful predictive algorithms heighten the promise of data science for humanitarian and development programming. We advocate for embrace of, and investment in, machine...

Agroecology is recognized internationally as a powerful lever to make agriculture more sustainable and resilient to climate change. In sub-Saharan Africa, many studies have shown that agroecology can...

Advances in remote sensing and machine learning enable increasingly accurate, inexpensive, and timely estimation of poverty and malnutrition indicators to guide development and humanitarian agencies’ programming. However...

There is widespread and justified concern around the immense challenges to food systems in meeting the demand of future populations for sufficient, affordable, safe and nutritious food. There are...

This report aims to identify the different scenarios where the process of digital transformation is taking place in agriculture. This identifies those aspects of basic conditions, such as those of infrastructure...

Many current food systems are unsustainable because they cause significant resource depletion and unacceptable environmental impacts. This problem is so severe, it can...