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Background note
Technical brief, 2024
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...
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A report prepared for the G20 Task Force for the Establishment of a Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty
Technical brief, 2024
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...
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A report prepared for the G20 Task Force for the Establishment of a Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty
Technical brief, 2024
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...
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An evaluation of crop yields in the Comoros
Technical brief, 2024
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...
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Proceedings
Proceedings, 2024
Following a brief assessment of the living income concept, FAO organized a living income workshop that was held from 9 to 10 November 2023 in Rome, Italy. The workshop facilitated meaningful exchanges, which fostered bonds...
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Youth leading the way towards a sustainable future
Technical brief, 2024
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...
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Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Corporate publications, 2024
Six years from 2030, hunger and food insecurity trends are not yet moving in the right direction to end hunger and food insecurity (SDG Target 2.1) by 2030. The indicators of progress towards global nutrition...
Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms
Corporate publications, 2024
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the...
A stress test for Ethiopia and Nigeria
Working paper, 2024
We leverage the multi-stressor nature of the COVID-19 generalized disruption as an opportunity to test the out-of-sample forecasting accuracy of both theory-based and data-driven vulnerability prediction models for the ex ante targeting of preventive interventions....
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Accounting for market structure to inform policies
Working paper, 2024
Recognizing that agrifood value chains (AFVCs) are essential to ensure food security and foster structural change, FAO seeks to reassess the array of policies and interventions needed to protect and strengthen AFVCs in low-income countries...
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