Per capita growth had slowed down in Africa years before the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine. Also, the number of people going hungry has been on the rise again for some years. These and other factors have to be…

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There is widespread agreement on the need for food system transformation. But many obstacles stand in its way – contentious policy debates, deeply entrenched interest groups and a lack of enabling conditions. This new…

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The world has reached a tipping point: up to 783 million people faced hunger in 2022; more than 3.1 billion were unable to afford a healthy diet. While our current agri-food systems fail to ensure access to sufficient…

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Whenever the implementation of (international) development agendas is at issue, the need to improve the coherence of policy interventions is stressed. But what exactly does this refer to? And what are the challenges…

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Since 2010, the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been assisting countries in sub-Saharan Africa in strengthening the…

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Women and girls in poorer countries are affected in particular ways by the multiple crises the world is currently facing. Uncovering the linkages between gender, resilience and food security, our authors look at ways to…

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Launched in 2010, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN) set itself the goal of bringing together a wide range of stakeholders and harnessing their collective power to overcome global malnutrition. It is precisely these…

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For many years, Brazil’s National Council for Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA) has been campaigning for alleviating hunger and poverty as well as for the right to food – with success. Its President Elisabetta Recine…

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There are many entry points for the transformation of agricultural and food systems towards more productivity, sustainability and resilience. Taking the example of a farmers’ cooperative in Ethiopia’s Choke Mountains,…

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Changes in food systems not only have nutritional and income impacts for the farmers involved, but can also affect the social fabric of farming communities. A project run by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the effects…

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