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Progress toward reducing global hunger has stalled since the mid-2010s. In fact, hunger is on the rise again, driven by slowing economic growth and protracted conflict, intensified by the impacts...

Motivated by the deterioration in global food security conditions, this paper develops a parsimonious machine learning model to derive a multi-year outlook of global severe food insecurity from macro-economic...

This technical report focuses on the short-term implications on the wider Kenyan economy of the COVID-19 lockdown by taking into account several impact channels (labour productivity, export demand and tourism...

Russia’s war in Ukraine and the related fallout have created a challenging external environment for the post-pandemic recovery of low-income countries (LICs). Food and commodity prices linger at elevated...

Background The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) represents a growing global challenge with adverse health and economic consequences. We aimed to investigate the associative roles of national income...

Highlights: This report compiles 5 knowledge reviews of the Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security (KC-FNS) on the impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on global food...

This sixth knowledge review of Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security (KC-FNS) analyses, organises and synthetises the information from 57 papers published between 1st December...

This fifth knowledge review of Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security (KC-FNS) analyses, organises and synthetises the information from 68 papers published between 1st October...

An estimated 27.3 million people are facing acute food insecurity between March and May 2022. This number is projected to increase to an unprecedented 38.3 million between...

The shift of economic power from the established Western economies and Japan towards the emerging economies in the East and South is set to continue.