Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Based on the principles of agroecology, the project aims to contribute to sustainable rural development through innovations in the rice value chain and the farmer – agro-pastoralist nexus. It moreover...

Agricultural expansion to meet humanity’s growing needs for food and materials is a leading driver of land-use change, exacerbating climate change and biodiversity loss. Seaweed biomass farmed...

Son La is the largest mountainous province located in the northern highlands of Vietnam with a total area of 1.4 million ha and a total population of 1,252,700 (88 people/ km2)...

Li-chăn is a project under the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock (Livestock CRP) that aims to provide research-based solutions to transition smallholder farmers to sustainable and resilient livelihoods and to more...

This study investigates the financial cost of increasing the diversity of cereal grains in livestock feed rations. We first develop a nonlinear mathematical programming model that determines the least-cost...

LMP is a five-year sector investment plan and includes both investment analysis and a budget - both a financial and a human resource budget- that guide the development of a country’s sustainable...

Mycotoxin residues are transferred from feed to animal products, yet, less attention has been paid to it in developing countries. There is a need to find alternative...

Highlights: The EU’s agri-food trade model revolves around importing low-value raw products, such as cocoa, fruits and soybeans, and exporting high-value ones like wine...

Reducing food production pressures on the environment while feeding an ever-growing human population is one of the grand challenges facing humanity. The magnitude of environmental impacts from food production...

The EU has a historical deficit of plant protein and is heavily reliant on imports (from the US and Latin America) to sustain domestic livestock production. Using an economic model...