Search Knowledge for policy

Food insecurity and malnutrition, once restricted mainly to rural areas, are spreading rapidly in Africa’s expanding cities. Conventional production-based responses from the agricultural sector will...

Africa’s cities are expanding, with adverse consequences for food and nutrition security of an increasing share of their population. In urban Africa, malnutrition is a complex issue related to factors...

Rural food value chains (FVC) in sub-Saharan Africa experience various challenges to implement food securing innovations. In the framework of the ERA-net co-fund strategy the European Commission...

This project aims to contribute to addressing malnutrition in general through developing sustainable insect-based value chains for improved food and nutrition security in Kenya and Uganda. Insects contribute...

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and diverse diets have been identified as strategies for improving nutrition. Little is known about the interlinkages between consumption and production strategies, and the preconditions and incentives...

Undernutrition imposes a staggering cost worldwide, both in human and economic terms. It is responsible for the deaths of more than 3.5 million children each year (more than one-third...

The five-hour colloquium was divided into three presentation sessions and a roundtable, each including a Question and Answer segment that allowed interaction between the audience (global and local) and the speakers...

The Landscape Analysis of readiness to accelerate action in nutrition is a systematic approach to assessing where to invest and how to best invest to accelerate action in nutrition. "Readiness analysis" is frequently...

This SUN Strategy 2012-15is a summary of the Movement’s goals, objectives, mode of operation and accountability. It should be read in conjunction with the 2012 SUN Road Map which...

The IPC Manual provides a comprehensive guide for new and experienced IPC practitioners, including an overview of the IPC as an approach for decision-makers’ use, supplemented by the technical sections of interest to the IPC...