Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

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Access to off-farm employment has been expected to be a critical approach to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition, two important targets of achieving Zero Hunger...

The Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) develops cassava and rice value chains for smallholder farmers by building strong public–private–producer partnerships. It reduces post-harvest losses...

Child undernutrition is a persistent challenge in arid and semi-arid areas due to low and erratic rainfall, recurrent droughts and food insecurity. In these settings, caregivers face several...

This paper examines the effects of shocks on temporal stability of risk and time preferences of rural households within a developing country context characterized by frequent droughts, chronic food...

The Russia–Ukraine War is impacting global food systems, which may trigger global cropland expansion and consequently lead to biodiversity loss far from war zones. To quantify...

Highlights: Since the last update on April 25, 2024, the agriculture and cereal price indices closed 1 percent and 6 percent higher, respectively, while the export price...

Highlights: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger...

Summary of UNICEF Report on Child Food Poverty Introduction The UNICEF report addresses the global issue of child food poverty, emphasizing the struggle of parents and families to provide...

Tight monetary policies, restrictive financial conditions, and the slowdown of global trade continued to weaken global growth. Global economic growth declined in 2023 and is expected to decline...