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, responsible...
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...
This publication provides a list of food system-based intervention options to improve nutrition and a set concrete entry points for maximizing the impact of each intervention. Developed through leveraging different expertise in FAO, it is a key resource to assist professionals involved in different...
Achieving the food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture goals by 2030 requires a coordinated set of actions on a number of fronts: coherent policies and programmes, an increase of investments in line with national priorities and greater collaboration across different sectors and...
Investment policies refer to public expenditures in agriculture and food sectors to increase production, productivity, affordability, access, and consumption of healthy foods. Policies include government tools that will attract private sector investment in healthy food systems. Examples of desired...
This research has been undertaken at the request of the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) by the class of 2016/2017 of the Master in Human Development and Food Security at Roma Tre University. The students were asked to conduct an indepth analysis concerning the introduction of a...
This research has been undertaken at the request of the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) by the class of 2016/2017 of the Master in Human Development and Food Security at Roma Tre University. The students were asked to conduct an indepth analysis concerning the introduction of a...
FAO is committed to strengthening its engagement and impact at policy level in order to meet the challenges presented by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and within our own strategic framework. The FAO policy portal provides a gateway to FAO policy and governance work on the many critical...
FAPDA (Food and Agriculture Policy Decision Analysis) is led by the FAO’s Agricultural Development Economics Division, in collaboration with FAO Regional and Subregional Offices. The FAPDA web-based tool is one of the major components of FAPDA activities. The tool was developed so as to provide an...
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017 at the global and regional levels. This year’s report looks at the impact of rapid urban growth on food security and nutrition, and considers how...