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As COVID-19 spread across the globe in early 2020, governments had to make difficult policy choices to balance the socioeconomic costs of social distancing and lockdown measures, on the one...

The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative is WFP’s flagship approach for integrated climate risk management. The initiative combines four risk management strategies: improved natural resource...

Malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a massive global challenge, and the past decade has seen a growing political attention to addressing malnutrition in different contexts...

The EWA-BELT project aims to sustainably intensify agricultural production in organic, agroforestry, mixed-crop and livestock farming systems in 38 study areas across six countries in East...

Produced by the Monitoring and Analysing of Food and Agriculture Policies Programme (MAFAP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this report takes stock of over a decade of data...

In 2020, the global coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed new challenges to the initiatives and institutions supporting the farming communities and ecosystems that underpin Africa’s food systems. This year’s...

This map presents the results for the whole consumption year by indicating the area with level of deficit. The tool provides a seasonal analysis of deficits, showing when deficits are likely...

This map presents the results for the whole consumption year by indicating the area with level of deficit. The tool provides a seasonal analysis of deficits, showing when deficits are likely...

As citizens of the world, we are all facing an extraordinary challenge. In the year 2050, an estimated 9 billion people need to be fed. Every single day...

For the second consecutive year, the region must prepare for a major food and nutrition crisis in 2021. The March update indicates that 27.1 million people might need emergency...