The dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and reductions in aid budgets by other Western donor countries, including the United Kingdom (40%), France (37%), the Netherlands (30%) and Belgium (25%), over the next 3–5 years threaten to reverse decades of progress in reducing malnutrition.
Gender equality should be central to all N4G commitments. All countries and development partners should make specific commitments to improve nutrition and gender equality in line with six cross-cutting principles
The Global Compact for Nutrition Integration is a collective effort to mobilize, sustain, and implement nutrition integration commitments from a broad range of stakeholders. The SUN movement countries have long championed multi-sectoral approaches to nutrition.
Too often, agricultural investments focus narrowly on high yield but nutrient poor staples. But we need to go beyond calories largely from staples—to nutrition.
This Knowledge Note presents two sets of analytical work to further our understanding of the links between public support in the agrifood sector and healthy diets. While the analytical work here is mostly suggestive, it paves the way for more in-depth research to unpack the relationship of agrifood support with healthy diets.
The global architecture to address undernutrition — a leading cause of under-five mortality—is evolving against a backdrop of global economic challenges and constrained resources. This puts funding for nutrition-specific interventions at risk, at a time when budgets are not keeping pace with growing needs.
Good nutrition is both a marker of human rights and a driver of transformative change. It signifies healthier lives, stronger economies, constitutes the foundation for resilience and touches upon every Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
Despite steady progress with data coverage in recent years, severe funding shortages in 2025 threaten to reverse these gains. The year ahead promises to be profoundly challenging for data availability but more importantly for the humanitarian system and the 300 million people in need of assistance in locations around the world.
The Commission introduces the Vision for Agriculture and Food to shape the future of farming and food in Europe.
This library synthesizes a large amount of scientific evidence to assess the effects of farming practices on sustainability outcomes, mainly regarding the environment, the climate, and agricultural productivity.
Sufficient food is available in the world for all people to consume sufficient calories, but not healthy diets. This study traces historical and projected changes in global food systems toward alignment with the new Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) used by UN agencies and the World Bank to monitor the cost and affordability of healthy diets worldwide.
Farming and food are core to the European way of life. Rooted in rich traditions, the ways we produce and enjoy food have shaped the communities, cultures, and landscapes that define Europe.
The outcomes of the 2024 Rio Convention COPs underscore the necessity to enhance and utilize synergies among the Conventions. Agroecology is a promising approach that simultaneously contributes to the goals of the UNFCCC, CBD, and UNCCD. By adopting a systemic approach to food system transformation based on agroecological principles, countries can achieve multiple socio-ecological and economic benefits while fulfilling their commitments to the Rio Conventions.
The Compendium is a product of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition implemented by FAO, IFAD and WFP and funded by the European Union. The compendium of 15 good practices of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) includes the individual templates of the 15 good practices, provides a synthesis of the main features of the 15 GTAs presenting the core characteristics of 15 GTAs and describing the implementation arrangements, implementation cycle, the potential results of GTAs and their key success factors and challenges.
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Globally, food insecurity is more prevalent among women than men.
The Financing Flows and Food Crises report is an annual publication that provides a comprehensive overview of food sectors financing flows in food crises, and insights into how international financial allocations address acute food insecurity. The report serves as a companion piece to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), by providing an evidence-based snapshot of trends in humanitarian and development financing to food sectors in food crisis contexts.
The Food Systems Countdown Initiative is a global interdisciplinary scientific collaboration that aims to track the progress of this transformation by regularly providing updated data on 50 food system indicators and producing thematic analyses related to key food system topics. Such monitoring can help align decision makers around key priorities, incentivize action, hold stakeholders accountable, sustain commitment by demonstrating progress, and enable course corrections.
The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition in collaboration with the Governments of Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, has undertaken a one-year study on the resilience of food systems. This report explores the threats they face, both today and in the future, as well as the development of plans for strengthening resilience of their food systems.
The conversion and loss of rangelands is done in silence and attracts little public attention. Pastoralist and rangeland communities are often marginalised and have little influence over policies affecting their food security, livelihoods, and culture, leaving them voiceless and powerless.
