According to the United Nations, the world’s population will grow by 2 billion people over the coming decades to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 (UNDESA-DP 2019a).
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This brief examines estimates produced by several recent model simulations and frameworks that focus on the cost of ending hunger as well as progress toward other development goals—estimates that range from US$7 billion to US$265 billion per year.
The costs of doing nothing about land degradation are several times higher than the costs of taking action to reverse it.
Women play important and varied roles in agriculture, but they have unequal access, relative to men, to productive resources and opportunities. Closing these gender gaps would be good both for women and for agriculture.
Africa has long needed to significantly and sustainably intensify its smallholder agriculture. But achieving large-scale, sustainable increases in productivity is a complex process.
The effects that different technologies have on crop yields and the use of resources
Agriculture has a crucial role to play in ending hunger and poverty in Africa, as it contributes approximately 35 percent of the continent’s gross domestic product while accounting for 70 percent of its labor force.
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Synopsis of Socioeconomic considerations in biosafety descisionmaking: Methods and implementation
The use of genetically modified (GM) crops has increased over the years since the United States, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and Mexico each commercialized one or more of certain GM crops—insect-resistant cotton and maize and herbicide-tolerant
Agriculture is the main source of employment and income for southern Africa’s rural population. This crucial economic activity is endangered by climate change.
Synopsis of the book East african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Agriculture is vital to livelihoods in West Africa.
Insights from Africa and Asia (Issue Brief)
The 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the seventh in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of global, regional, and national hunger.
The first decade of the 21st century has brought harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food-price spike of 2008 led to food riots and political change in several countries.