Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

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 agri-food system (AFS) employs about one third of the global workforce and contributes about one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This together with its...

Mechanization has the potential to boost agricultural production and reduce poverty in rural economies, but its impacts remain poorly understood. This paper randomizes the subsidized provision of a pair...

Connections between labour migration and food security of left-behind households are still poorly understood. Using data from two waves of a longitudinal survey conducted among...

Highlights Greenhouse farming is proliferating within the transforming global food system. We provide first empirical evidence of how greenhouse farming affects employment. Nationally...

Across Sub-Saharan Africa smallholder farmers depend heavily on manual labor supplied by their households, families, and communities, but women are particularly labor constrained. This research...

About 1.5 billion people, most of the world’s poor, live on small farms in developing countries. Improving livelihoods requires investing in their “agriculture human capital”...

Gender productivity gaps in agriculture are large around the world, even though women comprise 40–50 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries. Gender...

Highlights: Chapter 2 of the book focuses on strengthening Africa’s food systems. It consists in a couple of essays on: Food security in Africa: current efforts...

Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Asia. Both women and men are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. In the past ten years, many...