Global Food and Nutrition Security

The Knowledge contains in this knowledge review on CSA has been extracted, organised, and synthesized from a selection of 60 recent publications on the subject. The focus is on smallholder agriculture in developing countries. It provides an overview about CSA technologies and practices, the factors influencing its adoption, best practices and policy recommendations.

In November 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) convened an Anticipating Food Crises workshop, which facilitated initial technical and strategic dialogue between several actors engaged in Anticipatory Action, and enabled open exchange on future priorities, main challenges and necessary strategic alignments.

A new World Bank report examines how subsidy reform can help safeguard the world’s foundational natural assets—clean air, land, and oceans.

The lowest-income nations are spending far too much on servicing their unsustainable levels of debt, leaving them cash-strapped and unable to make the investments they need to break cycles of poverty, according to new World Bank data.

Amidst a global crisis, with multiple causes and consequences, the ultimate destinies of agriculture, food security, and development in West Africa and the Sahel are closely intertwined, while the fertilizer sector is at the heart of the problem, but also of the solution.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger hotspots during the outlook period from June to November 2023.

West African Heads of State and ministers affirmed their commitment to accelerate investments and reforms to make fertilizers more accessible and affordable during the high-level roundtable jointly organized by the Togolese government, the World Bank, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Acute food insecurity is set to potentially increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots” comprising a total of 22 countries, a new UN early warning report has found.

As the world is slammed by natural disasters, conflict, drought, economic shocks, and more, the World Food Programme faces unprecedented funding shortfalls which are forcing it to make impossible decisions about who gets food and who doesn’t.

This study set out to assess whether agroecology can effectively mitigate the effects of and promote adaptation to climate change without compromising food security.

The likelihood of El Niño developing later this year is increasing, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This would have the opposite impacts on weather and climate patterns in many regions of the to world to the long-running La Niña and would likely fuel higher global temperatures.

A range of conservation and restoration tools are needed to safeguard the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. Aquaculture, the culturing of aquatic organisms, often contributes to the numerous stressors that aquatic ecosystems face, yet some aquaculture activities can also deliver ecological benefits.

The Staff Working Document, includes a section dedicated to EU external action related to SDG2: “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture”.

The Team Europe Initiative Sustainable Agri-Value Chain aims to boost public and private investments in African agri-value chains and increase their sustainability. It includes support to smallholder farming, research and innovation, tailored technical assistance, policy support and the use of blending instruments to facilitate and de-risk investments in value chains, including agro-processing.

According to American meteorologists, the chance of El Niño developing this summer is now over 90 per cent.

IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's edition includes a special focus on the complex relationships between disasters, conflict and violence, food security and internal displacement.

Climate shocks to agriculture are threatening food security, especially in developing countries. Poverty and malnutrition are rising rapidly.

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The Global Report on Food Crisis (GRFC) 2023 estimated that about 258 million people in 58 food crisis countries and territories faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above or equivalent) and required urgent food assistance in 2022. This represents 22.7% of the population analysed and is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC and 34% higher than the number presented in the GRFC 2022.

We sampled 5,000 farmers of different types, in some cases including those that had and had not been involved in activities developing and promoting agroecology. In all the contexts studied we find that there is a continuum of level of use of agroecological practices, from few to many.