This document summarizes the results of a pilot true cost accounting study to measure environmental and socioeconomic hidden costs associated with Irish potato and rice production in Bhutan, Burkina Faso, and Malawi. The results indicate...

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) Zero Hunger requires a measurable improvement in the quantity and quality of official development assistance (ODA) to food security and nutrition. A central component of this work is...

This background note maps and reviews 19 trackers – 16 official development assistance (ODA) trackers and three non-ODA trackers – to inform the design of a new tracker for donors to better analyse their spending...

Although there are agreed definitions of food security and nutrition and a common aid database, there is no common standard for tracking official development assistance (ODA) for food security and nutrition. This creates confusion and...

The risk that the high level in hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition will continue is particularly high today, considering the modest level of global economic growth forecast for 2024 and persisting conflicts, crisis, and climate...

In order to prevent hunger, malnutrition and poverty from increasing in a world where periods of multiple shocks have become the new normal, building resilience to shocks is essential. The confluence of frequency, diversity and...

The Comoros, a small island developing state (SIDS) ranking among the poorest nations in Africa, is facing numerous challenges that make it particularly vulnerable to food insecurity: as a remotely located, net-food importing country with...

This booklet introduces the bioeconomy topic and its growing relevance also for youth. Global political and economic development agendas are placing more focus on developing and growing the bioeconomy to support the transformation to sustainable...

Rwanda is home to around 300 000 Irish potato smallholder farmers and is one of the top ten producers of Irish potatoes in Africa, with an estimated production of about 908 000 tonnes in 2022....

The living income (LI) concept continues to garner the attention of many development agencies, civil society organizations, companies and governments seeking effective strategies to improve the standard of living for smallholder farmers supplying global commodity...