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This summary of evaluation evidence brings together findings from 25 evaluations commissioned by WFP between 2018 and 2023. The summary offers lessons on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment...

Since at least the end of World War II, there have been efforts on a global scale to reduce food insecurity through neoliberal, industrial, and technocratic solutions often...

Highlights: Benchmarking to improve the sustainability of rice production. Assessment of the sustainability of rice production in Brazil and Cuba. Goal Programming philosophy to evaluate the sustainability of...

Highlights: Economic crises take different forms and occur for various
reasons, such as political conflicts and pandemics. What all
these crises have in common is that they cause disruption...

Governments are updating national strategies to meet global goals on biodiversity, climate change and food systems proposed in the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework and agreed...

On 23 September 2021, the Food Systems Summit convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, was held. Latin America and the Caribbean played an essential role...

WFP is making climate risk insurance solutions work for food insecure populations. In 2021, WFP protected over 2.7 million people in 19 countries with climate...

This compendium is organized in 5 sections: Section 1 discusses the broader meaning of evidence , the power and politics that shape and infuse our understanding of evidence, what counts...

WFP Cuba is adopting an integrated approach to reduce the vulnerability of farmers to drought and climate change impacts by promoting innovation on three fronts: i.) “preventive” insurance and disaster...

Food systems and the need for their transformation were already being debated before preparations were underway for the UN Summit addressing this issue. But do we all mean...