Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

In recent years, our food supply chain facing various disruptions shows a need for higher resilience and sustainability. To better prepare for future uncertainties the food supply...

This paper aims to understand the role of digital technologies in food system innovations for healthy food access and waste reduction. It seeks to expand the knowledge of commercial food...

Highlights: Interconnected macro, meso & micro level factors shape inequities in urban food systems. AcTion is needed to improve the immediate food environment in informal...

Food systems are experiencing a unique momentum of transformation guided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP). The potential of short...

Over the past few years, the circular economy (CE) concept has captured considerable attention from researchers and practitioners as a potential solution for social, economic, and environmental challenges...

Healthy diets are a cornerstone of good health, while unhealthy diets can lead to reduced immune responses, impaired physical and mental development, Non-Communicable Diseases...

Highlights Governments and civil society organisations have actively promoted local food systems over the past decades. We systematically test eight common claims...

Highlights Most studies assess farmers' resilience in low- and middle-income countries. The impact of upstream value chain configuration is understudied. Future studies should quantify food...

The Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO) is the first programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Eastern Africa specifically designed to foster peace...

Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not known about environmental impacts along food supply chains, looking...