Search Knowledge for policy

This report from the Tata–Cornell Institute at Cornell University focuses on food systems and nutrition in South Asia. The progress made in reducing the prevalence of hunger in the fourteen years leading to 2019...

The September edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available.

The term ‘feminization of agriculture’ is generally used to indicate an expansion of women’s engagement in agricultural production, as labourers or decision-makers. Feminization of agriculture is often reported as a global trend. While...

The Climate Risk Planning and Managing Tool for Development Programmes in the Agriculture and Food Sector (CRISP) project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)/ Deutsche...

Agricultural development projects increasingly include women’s empowerment and gender equality among their objectives, but efforts to evaluate their impact have been stymied by the lack...

South Asia is primarily an agrarian economy facing the five transitions of population growth, urbanization, increasing income, shift toward animal-based food, and climate change simultaneously...

Highlights A synthesis of five years of research on agriculture and nutrition in South Asia. A systems approach is needed to understand agriculture’s contribution to nutrition. Political commitment needs...

The Roadmaps (Afghanistan; Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Maldives; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka) identify climate action in key transitions: The Agriculture, Food, Water, and Land...

South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The people of South Asia are living through a "new climate normal," where intensifying heat...

Transforming agriculture in Asia Evolving demand even as food insecurity persists Rising incomes and urbanization are transforming food consumption. Daily energy consumption per...