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To enhance the resilience of food systems to food safety risks, it is vitally important for national authorities and international organizations to be able to identify early signals of emerging...

Key Messages: Global wheat export prices stabilized in April 2024 after declining for three consecutive months, while maize prices increased month‑on-month. International...

Highlights: This paper reviews the available evidence on the role of social protection programmes in facilitating climate- change adaptation and mitigation, with a specific emphasis on economic inclusion for agriculture- dependent...

The easing of maize and wheat export prices is helping to mitigate rising freight and insurance costs associated with shipping disruptions for importers. Conversely, farmers have adapted to reduced...

Key Messages: International wheat prices declined in March 2024, amid ample global supplies, relatively favourable conditions of crops still to be harvested and strong...

This book encompasses a broad range of natural resource sectors, with discrete chapters on water, land, forestry, fisheries, mining, petroleum and agriculture. Given this broad range of areas...

This Legal Brief reviews the concept of sustainability and systems thinking in legislative efforts, as well as relevant guiding principles. It then reviews a number of legal tools and mechanisms...

Highlights: The background paper for the International Year of Millets 2023 was published by the Food and Agriculture Organization. The document includes a synopsis of the current status of millets worldwide and was...

These Guidelines include step-by-step guidance to formulate qualitative and quantitative indicators of gender transformative change to help gender experts and food security, agriculture and nutrition programme...