Women’s Economic Empowerment and Agribusiness: Opportunities for the gender transformative agenda
There is a knowledge gap on the extent to which donor-supported agribusiness initiatives engage with the gender transformative agenda. The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development commissioned a study focusing on Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) in agribusiness initiatives under the gender work...
UNSCN Discussion Paper - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition and leave no one behind
The paper aims to present the centrality of nutrition in the current sustainable development agenda. It provides an overview of the numerous and inter-related nutrition targets that have been agreed upon by intergovernmental bodies, placing these targets in the context of the SDGs and the UN Decade...
Rural women: striving for gender transformative impacts
This online discussion invites you to reflect on the current understanding of gender dynamics of rural livelihoods and share information, views and experiences in preparation for the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women. The main objective is to highlight critical gaps and priority areas for action on how to accelerate gender transformative impacts for rural women.
Global challenges for a sustainable production of food of animal origin
Food of animal origin contribute to meet human requirements and have large significance, mainly for children and juveniles as well as for pregnant and lactating women and they may stabilize human nutrition. Due to the increase of global population, the higher income in many countries and to overcome...
Agriculture, food systems, diets and nutrition in Zambia
Zambian agricultural production is focused on one staple cereal: maize. Maize makes up the major part of the national diet, while nutrient-rich foods such as legumes, animal-source foods, fruit and vegetables are eaten in small quantities, particularly amongst the poorest families. Many Zambians...
Monitoring food security in countries with conflict situations
This report aims to provide an overview of the food security situation in conflict-affected countries and to provide regular monitoring of the food security situation in the countries currently being monitored by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The analysis takes into consideration the...
Food Sustainability Index
The Food Sustainability Index , created by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition, is a tool designed to highlight international policies and best practices relating to global paradoxes and to the main SDGs for food, climate change, sustainable cities...
How Senegal created an enabling environment for nutrition: A story of change
In the past 15 years, Senegal has made considerable progress in the fight against child undernutrition. To better understand how this was achieved, 11 national policy documents published between 2001 and 2015 were reviewed, and interviews were held with 25 key-informants from the government, donor...
Public purchases of food from family farming, and food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book, prepared by the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program, presents the most important lessons learned from the experiences currently underway in the region, which serve as guidelines for countries that wish to create or improve public procurement programmes. The book also analyzes the...
Rural-urban linkages and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the role of rural-urban linkages in fostering inclusive and sustainable food systems and how these contribute to rural transformation and, more broadly, to sustainable and inclusive development. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, the paper analyses the interdependencies between...