With climate variability and change being key drivers of hunger, the World Food Programme is building the capacities of communities and governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to adapt to the growing challenges...
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The Global Alliance for the Future of Food publishes Beacons of Hope: Stories of Food Systems Transformation During COVID-19. Drawn from different countries around the world, each initiative...
As urbanization rates across the globe are rising and there is a continued push to decentralise decision-making power to levels that are closer to the people served, cities are gaining...
The IYQ-2013 highlighted the huge biodiversity of quinoa crop and its high nutritional value. This international recognition conferred a new status to this minor crop for food and agriculture. The rapid...
Ensuring adequate food for people is one of the most fundamental responsibilities of national governments. Historically, governments have invested considerable resources in increasing production of staple foodstuffs...
Compounding the COVID-19 pandemic is a looming debt crisis for low- and middle-income countries where a growing debt burden threatens to crowd out social spending for children. This policy...
In this paper, we try to understand what the main causes of food losses (FLs) are. Our results show that producers' education and experience and the number of years in which...
Women’s decisionmaking indicators are widely used in social science research, though insufficient attention is given to measurement issues. We interrogate variations in indicator construction...
This study is part of a larger effort by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food (TEEBAgFood), from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), which has been “designed to provide...
In coastal Ecuador, cocoa is grown almost exclusively by smallholder households and is traditionally produced using agroforestry practices. Cocoa production is one of the country’s major industries: employing...