Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

This document analyses the evolution of the impact of COVID-19 in the ECOWAS zone. It helps provide an understanding of the overall socio-economic impact of the pandemic and its effects on the life of households, and identifies...

Key findings: This article discusses the following six cross-cutting lessons from the emerging microeconomic literature on changes in food insecurity associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: Food insecurity increases...

The urgent need to act in the face of interconnected crises (security, pastoral and rural, economic - soaring prices...) weakening the livelihoods and food resilience of vulnerable populations and threatening...

This report represents a second step in structuring existing knowledge about agroecology as farming and food system in support of the EC Knowledge Centre on Food and Nutrition Security (...

Food safety problems are a major hindrance to achieving food security, trade, and healthy living in Africa. Fungi and their secondary metabolites, known as mycotoxins, represent...

Since the 1970s, recurrent extreme weather and climate events have been affecting the Lake Chad Basin (LCB), which includes Adamawa, Borno, Diffa (Niger), Far...

Highlights We document trends in food security during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We see a sharp increase in food insecurity during the...

L’avis du PREGEC résume les principaux messages clés de la réunion du Dispositif régional de prévention et de gestion des...

Agricultural value chains are enormously important for development and poverty reduction in developing countries. Unfortunately, the wide array of forms of intervention used creates serious difficulties...

Highlights We use rural & urban level representative phone survey data from 5 African countries. Impacts of COVID-19 were highly correlated...