The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) report highlights a two-decade trend of soaring land prices, land grabs, and carbon schemes that are creating a severe ‘land squeeze.’ This phenomenon is threatening farmers and food production globally.
The Draft Nairobi Declaration on Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit outlines commitments to enhance agricultural productivity, soil health, and sustainability across Africa.
Global evidence suggests that land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to the challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural transformation, and gender equality.
Recipe for a Livable Planet is the first comprehensive global strategic framework for mitigating the agrifood system’s contributions to climate change.
This paper reviews the available evidence on the role of social protection programmes in facilitating climate- change adaptation and mitigation, with a specific emphasis on economic inclusion for agriculture- dependent households.
The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2024 estimated that about 281.6 million people in 59 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above or equivalent) in 2023. This represents 21.5% of the population analysed, and is the highest number in the eight-year history of the GRFC and 9% higher than the number estimated for the year 2022.
Aquatic foods play a critical role in global food and nutrition security. With projections indicating a continued rise in their consumption, aquatic food loss and waste (FLW) is a growing global concern. While the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 2011 estimate indicated that 35% of aquatic food directed to human consumption was lost or wasted globally, such estimates are outdated and inadequately aggregated, making it challenging to assess more recent FLW along the aquatic food value chains.
This study focuses on the potential of off-farm production and marketing of organic and biofertilisers (OFBF) to contribute to soil health in Africa, and particularly in SSA: Egypt (Northern Africa); Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal (Western and Central Africa); Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda (Eastern Africa); and Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe (Southern Africa).
Togo , Lomé le 20-22 mars 2024: La situation alimentaire et nutritionnelle dans la région du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest est préoccupante, avec 38,1 millions de personnes actuellement en insécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle aiguë.
The Food Waste Index Report is tracking country-level progress to halve food waste by 2030 (SDG 12.3). First published in 2021, the current report builds on recent and greater datasets and provides an update on the scale of food wasted worldwide, as well as a focus on multi-stakeholder collaboration through Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as a solution.
Agroecology is identified as an important solution to increase the sustainability of agricultural and food systems. Despite the increasing number of publications assessing the socio-economic outcomes of agroecology, very few studies have consolidated the scattered results obtained on various case studies. This paper provides new insights by consolidating evidence on the varied socio-economic effects of agroecology across a large number of cases at a global level.
The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2023 with sections on key climate indicators, extreme events and impacts. The indicators include global temperatures, greenhouse gas concentration, ocean heat content, sea level rise, ocean acidification, Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, Greenland ice sheet and glaciers and snow cover, precipitation and stratospheric ozone, with an analysis of major drivers of inter-annual climate variability during the year including the El Niño Southern Oscillation and other ocean and atmospheric indices.
Using nationally representative household panel survey data from five sub-Saharan African countries, the article models consumer preferences and examine how nutrient intake responds to changing food prices, total expenditures and other demand determinants.
Gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment (GEWGE) is fundamental to human rights and integral to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Ensuring gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment is critical to the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) mandate of ending hunger and ensuring food security and nutrition for all.
In an average year, poor households lose 5 percent of their total income due to heat stress relative to better-off households, and 4.4 percent due to floods.
Global food insecurity remains at worrying levels and the outlook for 2024 is bleak.
Climate change impacts globally have increased the urgency for ambitious action on adaptation. This is especially the case in the world’s most vulnerable regions, including Africa. This report covers global status and trends of adaptation finance and provides a deeper analysis of Africa at a regional level, given the heightened adaptation needs and opportunities on the continent.
This report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel summarizes key findings from case studies conducted in four countries: Ghana, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The report reviews these countries’ policy and institutional innovations and their programmatic interventions to target youth in transforming their food systems.
The food systems of Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) are facing challenges in meeting the needs of both people and the environment. These challenges include providing sufficient food and adequate diets to over 3 billion people, while addressing environmental issues such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, and land degradation.
This knowledge brief aims to provide a set of evidence regarding the outcomes and impacts of agroecology. There is a strong theoretical basis and empirical evidence that food security outcomes are as good or sometimes even better for agroecological systems than conventional alternatives.
