Search Knowledge for policy

Across developing countries, women play an important role both as producers of major food crops and in improving household nutrition. This research paper aims to assess the effect...

Highlights: We evaluated the impact of a gender-sensitive poultry marketing intervention on women's empowerment. Despite reaching and providing some benefits to women, there was no program...

The 2022 Climate Risk Insurance Annual Report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP-supported Climate Risk Insurance (CRI) programmes. It provides deep dives...

Food insecurity in the African context is a critical issue; yet total food losses are estimated at 15.9% and 17.2% in quantity and in caloric value, respectively (FAO, 2019)...

Available data suggests that in 2021, 126.3 million more women than men were food insecure (CARE, 2002 based on data from SOFI 2022 – for the over...

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...

How does nutrition improve? We need to understand better what drives both positive and negative change in different contexts, and what more can be...

This background paper examines the linkages and interactions between women’s empowerment, food systems, and nutrition. It examines: How women’s empowerment and gender equality relate to...

Resilient Food Systems (RFS) promotes a holistic approach to enhancing agricultural productivity and restoring degraded landscapes in smallholder farming systems. This report showcases the achievements and...

In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging. This paper examines the relationship between participation in different...