Search Knowledge for policy

This review showcases IFAD-financed nutrition-sensitive projects in the Pacific, and raises awareness of the nutritional challenges and opportunities faced by Pacific Island countries. Nutrition has been integrated into IFAD's...

This brief provides a comprehensive overview of how digital tools and technologies are shaping the future of agriculture and rural livelihoods in the Asia and Pacific region. The report also emphasizes...

In 2024, growth across PIC-11 economies is estimated to have slowed significantly to 3.6 percent, following a robust 5.8 percent expansion in 2023. This slowdown reflects the diminishing...

The need to shift towards new ways of thinking and working to address the current global challenges is implied in the growing conversation around agrifood systems, systems approaches and transformation...

Providing access to food in schools can serve as a platform for food system transformation, while simultaneously improving educational outcomes and livelihoods. Locally grown and procured food...

This scoping review examines the existing evidence on the impacts of the ongoing crisis in six countries in Asia and the Pacific region. This report provides relevant insights on the shocks faced by the region...

Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) are growing faster than the rest of the world but slower than before the pandemic. Slowing global growth, still tight financial...

Highlights: The Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2024 is one of the annual flagship publications of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). It...

Food systems transformation in the Asia-Pacific depends on disseminating and mainstreaming new approaches that foster sustainable agriculture. One such approach is agroecology. In the Asia-Pacific region, several agroecological...

Highlights: Agroecology is a promising approach that is transforming agrifood systems across the Asia-Pacific Region. Indeed, there is increasing evidence of positive results with the transition to agroecology, and these include...