The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unprecedented in terms of the share of the population experiencing acute food insecurity and famine and the speed of the onset of the crisis.
Food systems must go through a fundamental transformation if they are to become environmentally sustainable, generate nutritional benefits and improve economic equity.
The paper provides a review of the work on financing the transformation of food systems done by the author and colleagues at IFPRI.
The CGIAR biofortification program, HarvestPlus, was founded with the aim of improving the quality of diets through micronutrient-dense varieties of staple food crops.
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We analyse whether global value chains (GVCs) reduce trade barriers in the agricultural and food sectors as they affect lobbying and government incentives.
Micronutrient deficiencies such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and vitamin A, constitute a severe global public health phenomenon.
Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers.
This study investigates the financial cost of increasing the diversity of cereal grains in livestock feed rations.
Chinese migrant workers are very exposed to the shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Falling remittances adversely affect their families who rely on remittance incomes.
The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19.
Exchange rate policies can have important implications on incentives for export agriculture. However, their effects are often not well understood.
The global community has committed, as the first priority of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.