Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The monthly Food Security Monitor is a critical tool for stakeholders across the African agricultural landscape. This report equips policymakers, practitioners, and the wider community with vital insights to navigate...

The dominance of a few staple crops (maize, rice, and wheat) in most agricultural systems hampers the application of interventions to improve food security and nutrition. Research and development attention...

In this paper we present analysis on the recent historical trend in agriculture in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region, along with analysis of recent historical trends in temperature and precipitation...

Push-pull technology is a method of biological pest control. Plants with a repellent effect are used within the crop, while plants with an attractive effect are used around...

Highlights: Editorial to accompany special issue on East African Coastal Current. Focus on fisheries, marine food security and climate change impacts. Summarises results from physical...

Highlights: Dairy programs often focus on increased supply of quality dairy products. Yet dairy consumption responses to policy interventions are not well understood...

Rural people in Southern Africa are increasingly suffering both directly and indirectly from global fragility and crises. Effective ways to build resilience to these crises and respond...

The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) analyzes continental and regional trends in African agricultural trade flows and policies, with a special focus on the East African Community...

Achieving zero hunger by 2030 can be facilitated through green growth investments in the agriculture, forestry and land use (AFOLU) sector. Significant levels of finance...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched an initiative to assess the existing impediments for scaling innovation and technology in food and agriculture (AgTech) and to identify options to improve...