Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The integrated farming system (IFS) is a holistic farming approach specially designed for small/marginal farmers to enhance the system productivity, profitability, and employment generation of their farm, ultimately...

This discussion paper highlights the interlinkages between nutrition and the environment across various dimensions from policy to impact. It focuses on diets and food systems, which lie at the nutrition−environment...

Highlights: Globally, 2.2 billion people have no access to clean water while 3.5 billion people are forced to manage daily without hygienic...

Highlights: Characteristics and principles of sustainable food production were explicitly discussed. Economics, society and environment are three pillars of sustainable food production. Urban agriculture...

This Analysis presents a recently developed food system indicator framework and holistic monitoring architecture to track food system transformation towards global development, health and sustainability...

In less than one year the Niger Basin Authority, an intergovernmental body tasked with the sustainable development of the Niger waters and associated resources, passed the first ever nexus policy...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) belong to all of us. But amid resurgent conflict, climate havoc, and social and health crises, we risk losing sight of them...

Today’s fast-evolving information and communication technology (ICT) represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and to find...

Highlights Governments and civil society organisations have actively promoted local food systems over the past decades. We systematically test eight common claims...

No area of human activity is more essential to society than a sustainable Food and Agriculture System (FAS). With projections that the global population will grow to as much as 10 billion...