21/07/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound effect on the global economy and is jeopardizing the livelihoods and food security of millions of people. In June 2020, the World Bank released its outlook on the global economy, estimating a contraction [...]
Transforming Food Systems for Affordable Healthy Diets
13/07/2020
Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting [...]
High food insecurity levels in Sudan persist, driven by high inflation, a deteriorating economy and high food prices
01/07/2020
In the current period (June to September 2020), an estimated 9.6 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) and are in need of urgent action. This is the highest figure ever recorded [...]
26/06/2020
FAO's Environmental and Social Standards (2015) ensure that FAO projects and programmes conform to sustainability criteria and mitigate potential adverse impacts to achieve expected outcomes. A COVID-19 outbreak in countries already affected by existing shocks, including political instability, conflict and [...]
Achieving local and global food security: at what costs?
15/06/2020
A conference organised by Elsevier, Montpellier University of Excellence and Wageningen University & Research, and supported by Agropolis International, CGIAR: Science for humanity's greatest challenges, CIRAD Agricultural Research for Development, INRA Science and Impact and The French National Research Institute for Development [...]