Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: Maximizing the “triple-wins” from the agri-food system (i.e., higher productivity and incomes, greater resilience and reducing its environmental footprint) is a complex and multi-faceted challenge, with potentially non-trivial...

La transition agroécologique dans les pays en développement questionne le rôle et les caractéristiques des services supports dans l'émergence d'innovations...

Due to lack of enough support, innovation in the agricultural sector in Africa is still too scarce to meet the great challenges that agriculture is facing (climate change, demographic growth...

This Research Brief from the Centre for Food Policy, aimed primarily at policymakers, lists 45 actions that have a direct pathway to impact across five environmental sustainability dimensions...

This report focuses on four pathways for creating the incentives needed to transform food systems: Repurposing public investment and policies pathway. Policies and regulatory frameworks can be...

Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide. Support policies based on subsidies and trade barriers are highly...

Recent attention has focused on "repurposing" and redirecting agricultural support programs towards achieving environmental, climate and nutritional outcomes. Under these proposals, typically equivalent...

Key Points Countries around the world provide billions of dollars every year for agricultural support, with most of the benefits accruing to middle- and high-income farmers. Critics of...

If Malawi’s fertilizer subsidy program aims to increase food security in the country, it should strive to target the most productive farmers. Subsidy levels can...

Remarkable achievements in global food security have been made in the past several decades. Food production has grown significantly and outpaced the population growth. Household...