Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Ensuring food security in developing countries is highly challenging due to low productivity of the agriculture sector, degradation of natural resources, high post farming losses, less...

This study addresses the critical need to report original and current findings on the global food system's ability to meet the growing natural resource demands of an estimated 9 billion global...

Our health and well-being are affected by our food systems. The new nutrition reality has been linked to complex food systems, interrelated with several pathways...

People in rural areas of China, the first region affected by COVID-19, had an extremely challenging year in 2020. The pandemic posed a potential threat to their lives, well-being...

Food loss and waste represent a significant contributor to climate change is a considerable issue in the context of climate change: about 8 percent of global anthropogenic GHG emissions...

In Africa, food systems transformation is required to ensure adequate incomes for producers and enable access to affordable, healthy diets while managing increasing food demand from growing...

This Brief focusses primarily on the role of science, technology and innovation (STI), and including research and development (R&D), education and extension, in transforming the food systems of Asia and the Pacific. The Brief...

The Brief first reviews the main drivers of food system transformation in Africa. They include sustained economic recovery and rising incomes, rapid urbanization, steady population...

There is a need for more diverse bananas with far more diverse genetic backgrounds which meet specific objectives such as fresh fruit, cooking bananas or varieties...

Since 1991, India has been integrated with global markets, per capita income has risen, urbanization has grown and, therefore, the economy has experienced many...