Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Background Nutrition-sensitive agriculture is an effective multi-sectoral approach to address the underlying causes of malnutrition. However, successful implementation requires the involvement of different sectors to jointly plan, monitor...

Foodborne disease affects millions of people each year, posing a health burden similar to malaria, tuberculosis or HIV. A recent World Bank study estimated the productivity...

The report assesses the nutritional status (current and trends) of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age (15-49 years), with a particular focus on undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia. The report’s...

This review examines the nexus of poverty, malnutrition and diseases in Africa, the challenges, implications and their mitigation. The paper takes a critical look at available literatures on the primary causes, modes...

Highlights The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on diet quality are estimated. We utilize nutrient quality of nearly-one million food purchases in China. Nutrient quality...

Facilitating dietary change is pivotal to improving population health, increasing food system resilience, and minimizing adverse impacts on the environment, but assessment of the current ‘status-quo’ and identification of bottlenecks...

Highlights: Chapter 2 of the book focuses on strengthening Africa’s food systems. It consists in a couple of essays on: Food security in Africa: current efforts...

Available data suggests that in 2021, 126.3 million more women than men were food insecure (CARE, 2002 based on data from SOFI 2022 – for the over...

Questioning the myth of endless adaptation: The potential to adapt to climate change is not limitless: people and ecosystems in different places across the world are already confronted with...