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The right to feed oneself in dignity and to be free from hunger is guaranteed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which today has been signed and ratified...

Highlights: Relative to agricultural systems, high-carbon ecosystems – such as forests, peatlands, and mangroves – store large amounts of carbon per unit area. Agricultural expansion...

The Digital Agri Hub team examined more than 70 smart farming solutions being implemented in LMICs around the world. The solutions cover three sub-use cases...

Although policies can be critical constraining or enabling factors for aquatic food systems (AqFS) development, scarce evaluation of the impacts of existing policies means that decision-makers...

Gender inequality remains a pervasive challenge, not only from a development perspective but also from a human rights perspective. Recent years have seen a renewed interest in empowering...

In line with the tradition of addressing cutting-edge topics in blue bioeconomy, this 2022 edition deals with (1) an overview of latest developments of micro- and macroalgae cultivation systems, (2) a focus...

The minimum dietary diversity (MDD) indicator as defined by the WHO is commonly used to assess micronutrient deficiency in young children. However, individual food item-specific consumption patterns...

This paper develops a new framework to measure and track women’s empowerment in governance of countries’ agrifood systems. All too often, women’s needs, priorities, and voices are...

Studying successful country-level food systems transformations, this report identifies repeatable actions, investments, and collaborations that can accelerate the transition to more resilient, inclusive, sustainable, and healthy...

Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured...