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Summary of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub Work Plan 2024-2026 Introduction The UN Food Systems Coordination Hub's Biennial Work Plan for 2024-2026 addresses...

There is a broad consensus that agri-food systems need to be transformed to address the mounting global challenges including food and nutrition security, environmental degradation, and socioeconomic inequities...

The MYPoW gives direction on which topics should be addressed by the Committee on World Food Security, the activities to be undertaken, and the expected outcomes. It also requests...

Highlights: Food systems are currently locked into unsustainable trajectories due to various self-reinforcing dynamics and incumbents’ strategies. Political economy is useful to reveal the responsibilities of different...

Highlights: The aim of this work is to develop a conceptual framework of the interactions between agroecological transitions and food systems through a literature review, and to highlight both the well- and under-studied interactions...

Highlights: In the 4 years since the EAT– Lancet Commission's report on food in the Anthropocene, so much has changed. Global volatile supplies and costs of food, fuel, and...

Key messages: Unhealthy and unsustainably produced food poses a global risk to people and the planet. More than 820 million people have insufficient food and many...

Highlights: An “ evidence gap” can be defined as the gap between the evidence policy makers would need to decide on a course of action, and the actual evidence currently...

Highlights: Around one third of the weight of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, and around a third of crop calories are lost to the food system during...

The independent international body provides decision makers with the most comprehensive scientific information on nature-related issues. Some of the IPBES assessments are closely related to food systems...