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Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are compared. The sharp...

Providing food information via QR codes is not an adequate substitute to printing them on labels

The 2022 MPI Report finds that reducing poverty at scale is possible and unveils new 'poverty profiles' that can offer a breakthrough in development efforts to tackle the interlinked aspects...

This report aims to support countries in the necessary transition toward healthier, more sustainable diets by integrating biodiversity in food-based interventions to support nutrition and health.

This State of Knowledge Review synthesises the available information on the inter-linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and epidemic infectious diseases such as the Ebola virus; and the connection between biodiversity...

Today, about one third of agricultural and food exports in the world are traded within global value chains that encompass at least three countries. At the same time...

Sharing rapidly evolving digital innovations will accelerate progress toward achieving the SDGs in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The SIDS Solutions platform will...

The paper presents the opportunities and potential trade-offs of sustainable consumption and production to help build a consensus on the role of livestock-derived foods in sustainable, healthy and equitable diets. Livestock-derived foods...

Background: Vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Pro-vitamin A biofortified (yellow) cassava has the potential to contribute significantly to improve vitamin A status, especially...

The mNutrition initiative is a five-year global programme supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), organised and supported by Groupe Spéciale Mobile Association (GSMA), and implemented...