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Highlights: The text emphasizes the urgent need for a transformation of food systems, highlighting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of such a transformation. It outlines the negative impacts of current...

Highlights: This edition of The State of Food and Agriculture focuses on the true cost of agrifood systems. By introducing the concept of the hidden costs and benefits of agrifood systems and providing a framework through...

This guide explains the integration between fish culture and conventional crop agriculture and discusses how farmers can maximize the benefit of using these resources. The main concept...

Highlights: We evaluated the impact of a gender-sensitive poultry marketing intervention on women's empowerment. Despite reaching and providing some benefits to women, there was no program...

In order to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 – Zero Hunger - we must acquire a better understanding of what continues to hamper...

Maize is an important staple food that has cultural, economic, environmental, and nutritional impacts in the world. In addition to being a cornerstone crop for human nutrition, maize is in high demand...

The absolute number of people living in extreme poverty has been declining. But the gap between the wealthiest and poorest of the population is widening.

This review examines the nexus of poverty, malnutrition and diseases in Africa, the challenges, implications and their mitigation. The paper takes a critical look at available literatures on the primary causes, modes...

Poor households in rural Bangladesh often face concurring idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, which have adverse impacts on their income and consumption. In this study, we investigate...

Civil conflict began in Ethiopia in November 2020 and has reportedly caused major disruptions in access to health services, food, and related critical services, in addition to the direct...