Search Knowledge for policy

This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...

This paper quantifies the value of fertilizer for agricultural production and trade in a developing economy where agriculture is centrally important by using an unprecedented natural experiment whereby the government of Sri...

Agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific can be strengthened by tapping on agrifood-tourism linkages. When tourism and agrifood systems interact, both synergies and competition appear. Agriculture...

IFAD is one of Sri Lanka’s longest-standing development partners. Since its first investment in the country in 1978, IFAD has implemented 19 projects in Sri Lanka, benefiting...

The Ukraine War has had major implications for food security and food systems across the world given the important role both Russia and Ukraine play in global...

This publication describes climate-smart agriculture case studies that apply the five action points for CSA implementation. The action points are: expanding the evidence base for CSA...

The report Mobilizing Money and Movements: Creative finance for food systems transformation provides investors with a roadmap of creative finance strategies that support entrepreneurs, farmers, activists, and social...

The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launched a Crisis Response Initiative to ensure that small-scale farmers in high-risk countries can produce food over...

The Roadmaps (Afghanistan; Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Maldives; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka) identify climate action in key transitions: The Agriculture, Food, Water, and Land...

South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The people of South Asia are living through a "new climate normal," where intensifying heat...