Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: Large global potentials for carbon sequestration and biodiversity risk reduction. Agricultural productivity increases necessary for safeguarding future food supply. Trade-offs and synergies between...

Highlights: Showcasing the dynamic nature of agricultural landscapes over time. Utilizing NDVI and NDWI to understand the land use dynamics. Witnessing significant agricultural land utilization...

A growing body of literature discusses food insecurity in rural and urban contexts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Peri-urban food insecurity and coping strategies remain an understudied topic...

This report will specifically focus on examining the intricate relationships among different stakeholders in Colombia's policy domains of food, water, and land. The emphasis will be on understanding...

Key messages: • Companies are responsible for three quarters of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from food systems, driven mainly by agricultural production and land-use change...

Highlights: Lao land use policies favor land sparing over shifting cultivation (SC). Agricultural intensification in Laos did not result in land sparing...

Highlights: The report identifies integrated land management and climate-smart agriculture as key recovery levers. According to the report, investing in climate-smart agriculture increases resilience to climate shocks...

The article proposes five pathways to shape and transform Africa's food systems, based on ideas discussed at a session at the Adaptation Futures Conference in 2023. Develop food systems...

This resource of “Our World in Data” decrypts the environmental impact of agriculture and proposes numerous data for crops production and livestock farming.

Highlights: Arable lands have been converted into artisanal small-scale mining (galamsey) sites. Food crop production now competes with mining activities for land and labour...