Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: Progress was made in Latin America and the Caribbean in the fight against hunger and food insecurity, driven by improvements in South America. Between 2021 and 2022...

The Global Nutrition Targets Tracking Tool monitors progress of the six nutrition targets endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012 for 2025, as well as towards 2030, aligned...

Mongolia is severely affected by adverse climate change impacts, including substantially higher temperatures that have contributed to increased evapotranspiration and the drying up of the country’s water resources. Moreover...

This report presents the latest updates related to food security and nutrition in Europe and Central Asia, including estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy diets. It also explores...

The picture in Asia and the Pacific continues to deteriorate and the region is significantly off track towards achievement of the Targets 2.1 and 2.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Urgent systemic and sectoral...

Key messages By disrupting economic and livelihood activities, t he COVID-19 pandemic caused a dramatic economic downturn in Asia and the Pacific and exacerbated hunger and food...

Key messages In 2020, 59.7 million people in LAC were undernourished, which is 13.8 million people more than in 2019, a 30% rise in the number of people...

KEY MESSAGES After remaining virtually unchanged for five years, the prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) increased 1.5 percentage points in 2020 – reaching a level...

The inter-agency team released new joint estimates for child stunting, overweight, underweight, wasting and severe wasting (March 2020 edition) using the same methodology as in previous...