Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

The compendium brings together success stories told by farmers, the beneficiaries of the Africa RISING ESA project. It describes how the integrated sustainable agriculture systems transformed...

This report examines financial investment in protein production in sub-Saharan Africa. It begins from the position that investors play an important role in shaping the development of diets and food systems...

In the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region, the low-input cropping systems dominated by cereal monoculture and intensive tillage have a marked negative impact on pressure from diseases, weeds...

The policy brief presents a short summary of a study from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) that used an integrated irrigation-energy planning framework to identify groundwater irrigation...

Highlights Five explorative storylines for future EU food systems were developed and modelled. Implementation of agroecology and localisation of food systems were explored. Large-scale organic...

Highlights Fertilizers play a critical role for food security and human nutrition. Responsible plant nutrition follows a food system and circular economy approach. Achieving...

There is significant and growing recognition of the need to transform food systems to reduce their environmental impact. This has increased attention on the need for agriculture to become more ‘sustainable’...

This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers’...

Highlights Analysis rice yield gaps is needed to better understand how to sustainably increase rice production across Southeast Asia. Rice yield gaps (Yg)...

Climate change and soil fertility decline are major threats to smallholder farmers’ food and nutrition security in southern Africa, and cropping systems that improve soil health...