This transformation is critical for building food systems that can sustainably provide adequate, nutritious food to a growing population that is resilient to external shocks, including climate change and economic instability, while protecting the en...

To harness these economic opportunities in agrifood systems, young people must have skills and knowledge that match those demanded by rapidly transforming food systems. Such training must go beyond formal education.

This study examined how socio-cultural norms linked with rural food systems can potentially exert adverse effects on women’s diets.

The workshop aimed to facilitate the exchange of policy and institutional experiences in developing rice value chains among selected countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Sustainable food systems provide enough quality, healthy, and affordable food to all without imposing a burden on planetary and social boundaries. By this standard, it is quite clear that food systems in many countries are not sustainable as they gen...

This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural activities, inputs, outputs and facto...

Price volatility is an intrinsically market-related economic concept. The economics of this book is, however, carefully embedded into the political, agricultural, climate, and nutritional domains. This makes the book an important contribution for the...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conflict quickly sparked fears of a global food crisis. Food prices were already high in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and many countries were facing serious food insecurity. The Black Sea region...

The Food Balance Sheets were compiled with the technical support from AfDB, under its agricultural statistics capacity building program, as well as financial support from Phase 5 of the Statistical Capacity Building Program (SCB-5) of the Bank execut...

From Food Price Crisis To An Equitable Food System

The Agriculture Delivery Compact will lay the foundation to support Sierra Leone to become food self-sufficient, reduce dependence on food importation, boost exports of processed crops, while also creating jobs in rural areas. With a total envelope o...

This focuses on the development of farm blocks, strengthening and improving the delivery of extension services, promoting irrigation and water management, agricultural inputs support management, agricultural mechanization, and the development and ope...