Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: FAO is launching under the Food and diet domain a set of four subdomains featuring different types of dietary data that users can easily access. Statistics...

The Food Systems Countdown Initiative aims to monitor the state of food systems transformation through relevant data, independent of any established monitoring processes. Such monitoring...

Highlights: Estimating durum wheat yields in Algeria using climate records; A forecasting process using machine learning in the presence of data scarcity; Data augmentation by...

Highlights: Achieving sustainable growth in the agriculture sector has received the greatest attention. Researches on how artificial intelligence (AI) used to achieve sustainable objectives...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) established the Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Hub in June 2021 to provide a regularly updated and highly accessible picture of food...

One important constraint to farmers’ adoption of digital technologies, beyond costs, relevance, user-friendliness, human capital requirements, and perceived technology risks, is farmers’ lack of trust...

The relationship between livestock production and climate change is the subject of hot debate, with arguments for major shifts in diets and a reduction in livestock production. This Perspective examines how global...

Spatially explicit global cropping system data products, which provide critical information on harvested areas, crop yields, other management variables, are imperative...

The past decade has seen a growing global and regional momentum to prioritize nutrition and to develop actionable programs for improved nutrition and more effective food systems. This momentum...

This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape...