Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The Food Balance Sheets were compiled with the technical and financial support from AfDB, under its Statistics Department in collaboration with the Madagascar Country Office, with support from Phase 5...

Objectives: Understanding gender differences in food acquisition and decision-making is needed to inform policies promoting healthy diets for all. We compare food acquisition patterns and preferences...

This new Food Security Portal tool provides a simple measure of vulnerability to international price shocks for each country and each major food commodity. The basic idea...

Highlights: Multivariate probit econometric approach applied to estimate simultaneous adoptions of agricultural technologies. Smallholder farmers mostly make heterogenous decisions regarding complementary technologies...

Highlights There is a push to improve the sustainability of rice production globally. The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) advances sustainability along 12 performance indicators. Rice production...

Highlights We test the individual and joint impacts of three marketing messages through a field experiment eliciting willingness to pay for fortified rice – a health...

The high prevalence of aflatoxins in maize and other staple foods in the EAC has become an important obstacle to domestic and regional food trade. While EAC Member States...

The high prevalence of aflatoxins in maize and other staple foods in East Africa has become an important obstacle to domestic and regional food trade. By nature, managing aflatoxin...

Food Outlook is a biannual publication (May/June and November/December) focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets. The sub-title "Global Market Analysis" reflects this focus on developments...

This Bulletin is a revamped edition of the Global Food Price Monitor issued until December 2014. The Bulletin reports on recent food price developments at world, regional and country...