Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The diversity and structure of plant communities are valuable indicators for assessing landscape quality. Land-use change is one of the main factors considered to affect and have the strongest impacts...

Cocoa farmers must decide on whether to rehabilitate (Rh) or to renovate (Re) a cocoa orchard when its productivity declines due to ageing, disease outbreaks or other...

Tropical forested landscapes have experienced major changes over the last century, some of them driven by the transformation of farming systems in response to global change. Population...

World agriculture needs to find the right balance to cope with the trilemma between feeding a growing population, reducing its impact on biodiversity and minimizing greenhouse gas (GHG)...

Agrinatura is the major institutional voice in Europe and the main gateway between Europe and the rest of the world, grouping European universities and research organizations with a common goal in supporting agricultural...

Agroforestry is a form of agriculture “alternative” to conventional one, which provides multi-functional environmental, agronomic, economic and social benefits able to support sustainable improvement of food, nutrition...

DESIRA will develop the concept of Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems to advance understanding of the impact of digitisation in rural areas, linking analysis directly to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals...

Recent advances in our understanding and forecasting of climate and climate change have brought us to the point where skilful and useful predictions are being made. These...

This section presents an overview on evaluated proposals (incl. success rates) and detailed statistics and data on funded projects and their participants, broken down by countries and regions, research...

Prosopis juliflora is a fast growing tree species originating from South and Central America with a high invasion potential in semi-arid areas around the globe. It was introduced...