Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

El Niño-linked drought has caused widespread crop damage and wilting in Southern Africa, with 2024 harvests expected at below-average levels. Import requirements forecast to increase...

Placée sous les auspices des Commissions de la Communauté économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO) et de l’Union...

Sustainable food systems require mechanisms that assure consumers about the sustainability of agricultural production. Building on the existing literature on the impact of sustainability standards, this study is the first to assess...

The World Wide Fund for Nature defines a food system as “the complete set of people, institutions, activities, processes, and infrastructure involved in producing and consuming food for a given...

In general, agriculture plays a crucial role in human survival as a primary source of food, alongside other sources such as fishing. Unfortunately, global warming and other environmental...

Cropping systems and crop combinations are among vital practices to improve land utilisation with the limited arable land resource. Combinations of maize with legumes are common...

Highlights: Societal attitudes towards GM foods in the MENAT region are predominantly negative. People in the MENAT region have poor levels of knowledge about GM...

The dominance of a few staple crops (maize, rice, and wheat) in most agricultural systems hampers the application of interventions to improve food security and nutrition. Research and development attention...

Nigeria is the largest producer of cowpea in the world and one of the highest consumers. This paper documents the challenges in cowpea production and consumption, export, and import trends in Nigeria. The critical and comparative...

This Bulletin provides an overview of the climate situation and impacts on agriculture and food security from October to December 2023 as well as the climate outlook from February to April 2024. The bulletin was...