As discussed in an earlier post, fertilizer prices have increased drastically, up 230% between May 2020 and May 2022.

Like people, plants need a multitude of nutrients to thrive.

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered global disruptions in markets for key food crops and fertilizers, threatening food security worldwide.

2018 was a somber and unpredictable year, not only for food and nutrition security, but also for global political stability and international development.

Improvements in rural employment opportunities, both on-farm and off-farm, are essential to rural revitalization.

The first two Sustainable Development Goals call to end poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by 2030. This chapter looks at trends in rural poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the potential to put the world on course to meet these SDGs.

Rural revitalization requires that all members of society, including women, be able to participate in and benefit from growth and transformation of rural areas.

Rural areas are critical to the provision of ecosystem services.

Investing in three aspects of governance, examined in this chapter, is critical for rural revitalization. First, appropriate and predictable laws and regulations are fundamental to economic growth and development.

Rural development is a top priority of the European Union (EU), designated as one of two pillars under the Common Agricultural Policy since 2000. The EU’s multisectoral approach includes a variety of activities described in this chapter.

At the regional and country level, developments in 2018 had important repercussions for food security and nutrition.

Rural revitalization is a way of positively transforming rural areas for present and future generations, as described in this signature chapter co-authored with UNDP.

The world’s hundreds of millions of extremely poor people cannot escape from poverty without access to energy, notably electricity.

The food system community sees a huge potential for big data in agriculture to lift farmers out of poverty (Patel, 2013), and ensure that parents can feed their children nutritious, diverse foods (Lung’aho, 2018).

This chapter discusses the role of women in agriculture, and the ways in which their status affects the health and nutrition of their households.

This chapter summarizes key findings from recent reviews of evidence of the nutritional impacts of agricultural programs.

This chapter examines the headway that has been made in Malawi in bringing the agriculture sector on board as a partner in addressing malnutrition multisectorally, and the factors that are driving progress.

In this chapter, we make the case for India to shift to a nutrition-focused agricultural sector that goes beyond staple grain productivity to emphasize the production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods.

This chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture– nutrition linkages. It focuses on two specific aspects of capacity.

This chapter outlines some of the actions that businesses can take to improve nutrition outcomes and what governments and civil society can do to incentivize them to do so.