Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to grow modestly in 2024, returning to the low growth that prevailed in the decade before the pandemic. In addition to examining the macroeconomic outlook...

This working paper proposes five recommendations that Multilateral Development Banks can adopt to implement capital adequacy reforms in a way that supports National Development Banks in transforming...

Agroecology is a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented approach for co-designing options that enhance food system resilience, equity, and sustainability. Working in eight countries of the Global South, the CGIAR Initiative...

Since the discovery of aflatoxins in the 1960s, knowledge in the mycotoxin research field has increased dramatically. Hundreds of review articles have been published summarizing many different aspects...

Due to the urgent need to protect communities, ecosystems, and economies from the impacts of a changing climate, adaptation is becoming increasingly relevant. Climate change is already a significant stressor on most...

Highlights: Tunisia’s economic challenges have been compounded by an increasing vulnerability to climate change. The country’s location makes it one of the most exposed to climate change...

Highlights: The drought slowed down an already limited economic recovery in the first half of 2023 The sixth consecutive year of below-average rainfall compromised Tunisia’s agricultural production...

Food loss and waste (FLW) reduction is an important component in the transformation of the region’s agrifood systems. Addressing the drivers of FLW along value chains provides an opportunity to tackle...

Highlights: Climate change threatens to decrease cucurbit production by 15%. Availability of plants for medicinal and food purposes is severely affected by climate change. Climate change may...

Highlights on food security: In domestic currency, food inflation in the region is likely to remain elevated as a result of the continuing pressures on MENA economies’ currencies. In Egypt, year-on-year food...