Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Highlights: Agricultural commercialization improves women’s diets. Agricultural commercialization improves incomes and the number of crops grown. Women in commercial households are likely to consume more...

Persistent Hunger: Extreme hunger continued to affect nearly 3.5 percent of households in late 2025. Poor Adult Diet Quality: Over a quarter of adults (27.1...

Resilient food and nutrition systems that support dietary diversity are central to improving welfare outcomes and fostering the formation of human capital, with lasting implications for socioeconomic development...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a crisis that jeopardized food consumption and dietary diversity. This study aimed to: (1) investigate relationship between COVID-19 and women's and children's diets...

Suboptimal diets contribute to the risk of malnutrition and non-communicable diseases across the life course. Globally, intakes of fruit and vegetables (F&V) fall below recommendations, including in the Philippines...

This review synthesises the findings from over 100 scientific paper to document the key mechanisms driving trade-offs between Food Self-Sufficiency (FSS) objectives and ten major groups...

Metrics commonly used to assess household resilience fail to capture individual-level dietary vulnerabilities, particularly among women and young children. Considering individual dietary adequacy...

Farm production diversification is widely recognized as a promising pathway to enhance household dietary diversity and food security, though its effectiveness varies across ecological and socioeconomic...

Adverse nutritional outcomes for children under five remain a significant challenge around the world, and there is growing evidence that women’s empowerment is associated with better children’s nutritional...

While previous studies have examined the effects of input subsidies on income and yields, we study their impact on food security, measured through household dietary...