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 of influencing factors.
The 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) focused on the theme “Water. Harvests. Our Future.” Agriculture ministers from 60 countries agreed that addressing water scarcity and competing uses requires placing agriculture at the core of water policy and governance. In the final ministerial communiqué, adopted at the Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, the ministers affirmed that, as population growth drives rising food demand while water resources continue to decline, effective water governance has never been more essential for the human rights to water and food.
Produced by UN Women and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the “Gender snapshot” is the world’s leading source of data on gender equality and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Drawing from more than 100 data sources, it tracks progress on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. With five years to go, and thirty since the Beijing Platform for Action, the report offers both a warning and a way forward. It also anchors the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, identifying six priority areas for accelerated delivery, including two with costed investment pathways on digital inclusion and freedom from poverty.
Sudan is in the grip of an escalating food crisis. Conflict, displacement, and the collapse of markets have pushed millions into acute food insecurity. In several regions, conditions are now at or near famine thresholds. But this crisis is not gender neutral.
This analysis triangulates women’s testimonies and key-informant interviews with secondary literature on gender and food security in Sudan.
Produced by UN Women and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the “Gender snapshot” is the world’s leading source of data on gender equality and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. Drawing from more than 100 data sources, it tracks progress on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. With five years to go, and thirty since the Beijing Platform for Action, the report offers both a warning and a way forward. It also anchors the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, identifying six priority areas for accelerated delivery, including two with costed investment pathways on digital inclusion and freedom from poverty.
FAO Country Gender Assessment series offers a comprehensive analysis of gender equality in agriculture and rural development, identifying persistent gender gaps and opportunities to advance equality in agrifood systems.
The study defines a healthy diet using the “healthy diet basket” (HDB), which is a standard based on nutritional guidelines that includes a range of food groups with the needed nutrients to provide long-term health. Using both data on locally available products and food-specific emissions databases, the authors estimate the costs and greenhouse gas emissions of 440 food products needed for healthy diets in 171 countries. They examine three different healthy diets: one using the most-consumed food products, one using the least expensive food products and one using the lowest-emitting food products. Each of these diets is constructed for each country, based on costs, emissions, availability and consumption patterns.
This publication was prepared by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and provides insights on policy instruments and agrifood system approaches aimed at promoting food and nutrition security and enhancing the effectiveness, sustainability, and resilience of agrifood systems at national, regional and global levels.
This policy brief argues that when guided by nutrition-sensitive strategies, food processing in Africa can be harnessed to improve dietary quality, enhance food safety, reduce postharvest losses, and create economic opportunities, particularly for women-and youth-led enterprises. However, the proliferation of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can have negative consequences on public health, unless appropriate regulation are in place and consumer education is enhanced. This policy brief collects evidence on this topic drawing from the Malabo Montpellier Panel’s 2024 VALUE-UP report and from innovative case studies across Africa.
Africa’s agrifood systems sit at the center of the continent’s aspirations for food security and improved nutrition, jobs and inclusive agricultural growth, and climate resilience. Adopted in 2025, the Kampala Declaration’s six commitments provide a timely, unifying political framework for “building resilient and sustainable agrifood systems in Africa”—but translating ambition into impact will depend on how countries implement reforms and investments, at scale and over time.
This paper reviews the extent to which inclusive climate policy processes and policies reduce power imbalances and provide women with opportunities to increase their social, economic and political capacities and to participate meaningfully in climate and disaster risk governance at multiple scales.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system is the official global method for classifying food insecurity. As of 2023, international agencies and governments use IPC analyses to allocate more than US$6 billion of humanitarian assistance annually.
The publication of the OECD final 2024 data on Official Development Assistance (ODA) and other resource flows provides a comprehensive perspective of development finance received by developing countries. In addition, it offers an activity-level perspective on ODA, concessional finance and philanthropic flows provided by a range of actors. The report precedes the major aid cuts by the United States and expenditures’ decreases by other major donors that occurred in 2025.
The increasing threat of soil degradation presents significant challenges to soil health, especially within agroecosystems that are vital for food security, climate regulation, and economic stability. This growing concern arises from intricate interactions between land use practices and climatic conditions, which, if not addressed, could jeopardize sustainable development and environmental resilience.
The article India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Agroecology has been advocated as a promising approach in Africa to increase productivity, preserve natural resources, ensure economic viability and achieve social justice. However, supporting evidence has been so far limited to single case studies, while a more systematic analysis is lacking.
In the current edition of a regular joint bi-yearly report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 16 countries and territories identified as hotspots between November 2025 and May 2026, prompting an early warning for urgent humanitarian action in these identified hunger hotspots.
The document if the main outcome of the COP30 held in Belém, Brazil, from November 11 to November 21, 2025.
The Operational Guide on Agroecology is a comprehensive theoretical and methodological guide to support the integration, implementation, and evaluation of agroecological transitions within development cooperation.
