Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: The Draft Nairobi Declaration on Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit outlines commitments to enhance agricultural productivity, soil health, and sustainability across Africa. Key...

This report describes a breakthrough model for financing and collaboration to support farmers and accelerate the transition to sustainable food production . Food production changes are urgently needed...

Food systems are increasingly threatened by climate change, natural resource degradation, rapid population growth, and shifting diets. Sustainable agricultural practices labeled as “agroecology”...

Malawi has been at the center of the debate on agricultural input subsidies in Africa ever since it significantly expanded its fertilizer subsidy program about two decades...

Context: The 2023 Global Report on Food Crises revealed that in 2022, nearly 258 million people in 58 countries and territories were in Crisis or worse acute food...

Highlights: The text emphasizes the urgent need for a transformation of food systems, highlighting the economic, environmental, and social benefits of such a transformation. It outlines the negative impacts of current...

Highlights: This report presents legume-centered agroecological strategies to drive policy transformation, research, and strategic partnerships in Africa. Contemporary scholarship underscores the widespread adoption of industrialized agriculture...

Smallholder farmers in northeastern Nigeria face the triple threat of food insecurity, climate volatility, and conflict. Northeastern Nigeria has some of the highest levels of food insecurity...

In many countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, input subsidy programmes are common, often focussing on inorganic fertiliser. These programmes often do not achieve...

Highlights: Maximizing the “triple-wins” from the agri-food system (i.e., higher productivity and incomes, greater resilience and reducing its environmental footprint) is a complex and multi-faceted challenge, with potentially non-trivial...