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This guidance provides financial decision-makers across banking, insurance and investment with a science-based and actionable toolkit, giving easy-to-follow recommendations on how to approach financial activity related to...

Farmers who grow vegetatively propagated crops (VPC) face certain limitations in access to seed. Some of these constraints are related to policy, institutions and markets...

Key messages What is the issue and why is it important? Diet has significant health impacts. The high overweight and obesity rates in OECD countries that co-exist with food...

Key messages Downstream segments of agri-food chains (such as processing, wholesale, and retail) are usually more concentrated than farm-level production, which leads to widespread concerns...

Key points Modelling results suggest that a comprehensive policy strategy, comprising of agriculture and land use emission taxes and subsidies for carbon sequestration, at a carbon price consistent...

This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice for governments and development partners on reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The analysis...

Key messages What is the issue and why is it important? In pursuing consumer health and food system sustainability goals, countries are searching for ways to implement and evaluate...

Agricultural data and their use for better decision-making and innovation are at the core of the digital transformation of agriculture. But fragmented and unclear data governance arrangements have raised concerns...

Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) provisions and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) generally raise trade costs, but by providing a positive signal to consumers that enhances confidence in imported products...

The assessment is based on 377 documents covering 62 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Americas. The analysis reveals that the dimension of food security that has been most...