Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The farmer field school (FFS) has been promoted as an approach for educating farmers on making adaptive farming decisions. In Malawi, the FFS has been used to enhance...

Highlights The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on diet quality are estimated. We utilize nutrient quality of nearly-one million food purchases in China. Nutrient quality...

In many countries, varietal turnover rates are stubbornly low in seed systems that target smallholder farmers. While there are several factors that contribute to low...

In emergencies and protracted crises, the availability of and access to knowledge and information are critical for the vulnerable segment of the population. Travel restrictions and ability to travel to the field and non-governmental organization (NGO)...

Investing in farmers – what is known as ‘agriculture human capital’ – is crucial to addressing challenges facing our global agri-food systems, from sustainably feeding the world’s...

Home to one-quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth – South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition. The Green Revolution positioned...

School feeding programmes provide meals to 388 million children in 161 countries, costing billions of dollars each year (WFP 2020). Improving nutrition and abating...

The Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA) supports sector leaders to deliver on top national priorities in African agriculture and nutrition security. These leaders represent the wide...

Background Millions of children worldwide especially in the Asian subcontinent are vulnerable to early childhood stunting. There are contradictory reports of the association between catch-up growth...

Objectives: Limited evidence exists on longitudinal impacts of undernutrition on learning skills as adolescents mature. This study aimed to examine the effect of undernutrition in early adolescence on learning skills...