Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

In Africa, after the first coronavirus case was reported in Egypt in mid-February 2020, the number of victims rose rapidly. Fifteen months later, 6.2 million cases...

Addressing hidden hunger with nutrient-dense staple crops—developed through the process of biofortification—has gained considerable traction in low- and middle-income countries since the first varieties were released to farmers...

In support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Member States and country offices, the FAO Subregional Office for Eastern Africa (SFE) in 2018 published a five–year...

COVID-19 induced lockdowns have had far reaching impacts on the rural sector, particularly on women farmers. These impacts have been exacerbated by lack of access...

This document illustrates progress made by WFP over the six months since its socio-economic response to COVID-19. The SERRF (formerly MTPF) leverages WFP’s extensive operational footprint...

This paper of the Scientific Group for the UN Food Systems Summit (2021) analyses that food systems are becoming increasingly global, dynamic, and complex. With this complexity, new and challenging...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been rapidly evolving across the globe since the beginning of 2020, bringing both direct health impacts and more severe, covert and complex socio-economic...

Measures that have been put in place across the world to slow down the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) have had profound effects on food and nutrition security for those...

In early 2020, the unprecedented nature of COVID-19 prompted India, among many other countries, to put in place stark measures to stem the virus’ spread and the cost of human...

COVID-19 has had an instant effect on food systems in developing countries. Restrictions to the movement of people and goods have impaired access to markets, services and food. Unlike...