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Global food policy report 2024: Food systems for healthy diets and nutrition

Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but sustainable healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape th

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2023 ATOR: The call for nutrition-smart food systems

A shift from agriculture to manufacturing was one of the hallmarks of job creation, poverty reduction, and rapid growth in low-income countries during the latter half of the 20th century.

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Gender and food systems: Avenues for transformation?

In this chapter, we build upon the gender and food systems framework developed by Njuki and colleagues (2022) to assess the associations between measures of women’s empowerment and specific food systems outcomes.

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Economics of climate adaptation for resilient food systems in Africa

In this chapter, we examine this nexus, focusing on the food security function of food systems, and build the evidence base for policymakers to mainstream climate risk and adaptation solutions in food system transformation efforts.

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Data challenges and opportunities for food systems transformation in Africa

African food systems began to transform during the last decade in response to higher agricultural productivity growth, rising per capita incomes, a growing middle class, and rapid urbanization.

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Bioeconomy: A path to African food system transformation

In this chapter, we intend to ascertain the current direction of the African bioeconomy pursuit and identify the opportunities for advancing regional adoption and practice to augment the sustainability of the food system.

For several decades, Africa’s food security situation has been dire. However, that dire state has recently been complicated by rising rates of overweight and obesity and other diet-related noncommunicable diseases.

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A paradigm shift in food safety for Africa

Food safety systems globally, and more so in Africa, have not kept pace with the complexity of food safety challenges.

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Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation processes

2023 marks two decades since the 2003 launch of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), a continentwide framework for agriculture-led development.

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African food systems transformation and the post-Malabo agenda

This year marks 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was broadened under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Impr

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Global food policy report 2023: Rethinking food crisis responses: Synopsis [in Chinese]

2022年,世界面临多重危机。旷日持久的2019冠状病毒病疫情(COVID-19)、重大自然灾害、内乱和政治动荡以及气候变化日益严重的影响对食物系统的破坏仍在继续,而与此同时,俄乌战争和通货膨胀加剧了全球粮食和化肥危机。危机数量不断增加,多种危机的叠加影响日益加剧,饥饿人口和流离失所者数量不断攀升,促使人们呼吁重新思考粮食危机应对措施,从而为变革创造了一个真正的机会。