Knowledge Centre for Global Food and Nutrition Security

Objectives: R5N was an agriculture-based resilience program to strengthen rural farming communities against shocks and to improve livelihoods. It was conducted by the World Food Programme...

Micronutrient deficiency, or hidden hunger, remains a significant problem affecting more than 2 billion people globally. Consuming a diet that is diverse in agricultural products is a primary way...

As part of efforts to promote common beans in Malawi, CIAT/PABRA and partners has been implementing research-based nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions, conducting nutrition studies to design, implement...

Introduction While a number of studies have examined the nutritional impacts of agroecological interventions, few have examined impacts on child development, maternal and child anemia, and men’s...

Highlights: Identifying factors influencing NSA and their interplay requires a system approach. Failure frequently arose from not having/using context knowledge, could be avoidable...

The World Wide Fund for Nature defines a food system as “the complete set of people, institutions, activities, processes, and infrastructure involved in producing and consuming food for a given...

Highlights: Biofortification is a global approach to reducing hunger and malnutrition. It entails funding agricultural types that have been biofortified. Optimizing the impact of current nutrition programs...

Biofortification was first proposed in the early 1990s as a low-cost, sustainable strategy to enhance the mineral and vitamin contents of staple food crops to address micronutrient malnutrition. Since then...

Improving nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa under increasing climate risks and population growth requires a strong and contextualized evidence base. Yet, to date, few studies...

In rural sub-Saharan Africa, where malnutrition in all its forms is rife, the greatest gap between the availability of foods and the foods needed for a nutritious diet are faced...