Transforming food systems is essential to bring about a healthier, equitable, sustainable, and resilient future, including achieving global development and sustainability goals.

Food production includes a complex and varied set of agricultural and nonagricultural activities, involving a growing number of sectors and actors that influence the way food is produced, processed, distributed, and consumed.

Fruits & vegetable value chains (F&V VC) in Nigeria hold significant potential to continue toward sustainable, inclusive food system transformation.

This study assesses the political economy of the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that brought out in April 2023, resulting in massive violence, displacement, and threats to food security.

استنادا إلى مجموعة من قواعد البيانات على مستوى الاقتصاد الكلي في السودان والتي تشتمل معلومات تفصيلية عن الإنتاج والتصنيع الزراعي، تسعى هذه الدراسة إلى تشخيص حالة تحول النظام الزراعي الغذائي في السودان على خلفية النمو والتحول الاقتصادي الواسع.

Myanmar’s agrifood system has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of multiple crises—COVID 19, the military coup, economic mismanagement, global price instability, and widespread conflict—with respect to production and exports.

Agricultural extension can have important impacts on vulnerable populations by increasing food production, which improves both rural incomes and urban food security.

Achieving gender and social equality in agri-food systems can result in greater food security and better nutrition for all—and transform food systems to be more just, resilient and sustainable.

Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agrifood value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live, and outcomes, such as diets and livelihoods.

This analysis is composed of two parts. The evolving structure of Kenya’s agrifood system (AFS) and its contribution to national development is assessed using a series of Social Accounting Matrixes (SAMs) for Kenya for the period 2009–2019.

This paper assesses the structure of Rwanda’s current and evolving agrifood system and its contribution to national development.

Agri-food exports are important for Myanmar’s economic takeoff, in particular for the transformation of agri-food systems.

Even before the current global COVID-19 health crisis — whose potential long-term impacts on food systems are still unclear (Béné et al.

Climate change is influencing the transformation of agriculture and food systems across the globe in unprecedented ways.

This paper provides a diagnostic of Rwanda’s food systems and the policy landscape that shapes it.

The recent history of rural economic transformation in Myanmar and the effects of COVID-19 and the military coup in February 2021 provide important lessons for the design and implementation of plans to help the country recover from these scourges.

Most farmers source sweetpotato vines from neighboring farmers or from cuttings taken from their own plots during the previous season.