Agricultural systems and rural development are key to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Policymakers seeking to eradicate hunger today face a difficult dilemma: preventing billions from going hungry while saving the planet. To...

Uganda’s dairy industry, a key sector within the country’s third National Development Plan, has experienced remarkable growth in the last decade, with raw-milk production rising from 1.9 billion litres in 2014 to 2.8 billion litres...

This document introduces a new agrifood systems typology developed for The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 based on the typology developed by Marshall et al. (2021). It aims to categorize countries based on multiple...

Agrifood systems play a pivotal economic and social role in the five Central Asia (CA5) countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. These not only contribute significantly to the gross domestic product (GDP) of these...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers the effectiveness of actions at global, national and local level to avoid the hidden...

The State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report by FAO refines the global estimates of hidden agrifood system costs across 156 countries, introducing a typology of six agrifood system types rather than geographic classifications. Building...

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...