Highlights Keeping food markets open to trade remains crucial for global food security. Despite three decades of reforms, scope remains for further openness...

Resilience is often associated with multivalued and multi-faceted strategies, programs, and projects. After approximately 15 years of empirical evidence in the literature, few research questions remain unexplored...

Global food security is at a tipping point. After decades of both absolute and relative improvement in food security worldwide, climate change, market disruptions and declining productivity...

In the past few years, we have seen growing calls for a transformation in global food systems in response to multiple challenges, including climate change. Food systems...

Seed is critical to food security as the first link in the food value chain (Galiè 2013) and can be a powerful agent of change (Reddy et al. 2007)...

Food systems are expected to provide food security and nutrition, to contribute to the livelihoods of millions, and to do so in an environmentally sustainable way. The broad outlines of these challenges...

Context Indigenous people have an approximate population of 476 million across 90 countries with about 5,000 distinct cultures, accounting for most of the world’s cultural diversity...

Human capital is considered the most important component of a country’s wealth. Although human capital development continues over a lifetime, the most important phase is the first 8,000...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis and massive disruptions to economies and livelihoods. As the global leader in agricultural research, CGIAR immediately took action to analyse...

The European Commission document on ‘European Research and Innovation for Food and Nutrition Security’ sets out how research and innovation policy is currently contributing to food and nutrition security...