Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Agricultural and food policies are increasingly asked to do more to improve the dietary quality of populations in lower and middle income countries (LMICs), especially severely malnourished...

Highlights There is an operational agricultural cooperative in every tenth community in Malawi, but they are not well utilized to access markets or services. Almost no farmers...

The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging pandemic...

In the discourse about the development of farmed animal production (terrestrial livestock production and aquaculture) in the tropics, two important food system outcomes emerge: (1) to supply animal-sourced...

Like much of the world, Asia and the Pacific is in the midst of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, dominated by Omicron variant – few months following the Delta variant driven forth...

Investing in One Health – cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the human health, animal health, and environmental health sectors – is crucial for maintaining healthy...

The World Bank team has developed various analytical products to support the Government of Pakistan in transforming its agri-food system towards higher productivity and competitiveness. Under...

KEY MESSAGES Centering food systems transformation within climate change action is critical to cutting emissions and delivering on the target to limit global warming to 1.5°C...

Increasingly frequent droughts, declining soil fertility, and poor plant-animal-atmosphere interactions are threatening the sustainability of integrated crop-livestock systems in the rainfed drylands of North Africa. Previous...

Animal source foods are evolutionarily appropriate foods for humans. It is therefore remarkable that they are now presented by some as unhealthy, unsustainable, and unethical, particularly...