Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: Identifying factors influencing NSA and their interplay requires a system approach. Failure frequently arose from not having/using context knowledge, could be avoidable...

The World Wide Fund for Nature defines a food system as “the complete set of people, institutions, activities, processes, and infrastructure involved in producing and consuming food for a given...

Highlights: Biofortification is a global approach to reducing hunger and malnutrition. It entails funding agricultural types that have been biofortified. Optimizing the impact of current nutrition programs...

Biofortification was first proposed in the early 1990s as a low-cost, sustainable strategy to enhance the mineral and vitamin contents of staple food crops to address micronutrient malnutrition. Since then...

Improving nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa under increasing climate risks and population growth requires a strong and contextualized evidence base. Yet, to date, few studies...

In rural sub-Saharan Africa, where malnutrition in all its forms is rife, the greatest gap between the availability of foods and the foods needed for a nutritious diet are faced...

There are few studies that rigorously assess how agricultural and nutrition related interventions enhance resilience and even fewer that incorporate a gendered dimension in their analysis...

Highlights: There is wide diversity of views on which actions are essential for healthy diets. Views were particularly polarised on fortification and reformulation. There is strong agreement...

Highlights: Relationship between farm production diversity and dietary diversity analyzed in Kenya. Small positive association in general, but different partial effects identified. Production diversity...

In rural areas where malnutrition is higher and households poorer, growing diverse fruit trees-especially indigenous fruits-can provide multiple benefits. These fruit trees can...