Did you know that nearly 1.7 billion people live in areas where land degradation is cutting crop yields and threatening food security? The #SOFA2025 interactive story looks at how we can address land ...

Interview with Dr Peter Macharia, a spatial epidemiologist from Kenya

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Access to a healthy diet is a fundamental human need, yet a significant portion of the global population faces barriers to realizing it. Conventional …

The Iowa Farmers Union is deeply alarmed disappointed by the USDA’s sudden termination of state contracts for the 2025 Local Food funding

FAO assumes joint custodianship of indicator seen as key to ending malnutrition

Massive political efforts are needed to tackle the root causes of hunger – conflict, poverty, inequality. Technology alone is not sufficient.

Using OpenAI LLM (GPT-4o) and embedding models, GAIN developed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based chatbot and connected it to a database of 28 publicly accessible food and nutrition policy d...

In line with its Science and Innovation Strategy, FAO has developed this guidance on strengthening science–policy interfaces (SPIs) for agrifood systems at the national level, helping to ensure that e...

Many food system-related databases, tools, and dashboards are available, but need to be harmonized to be helpful for decision-makers.

The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actual...

Global poverty lines belong to two main types that differ on how the poverty line’s nominal monetary amount is adjusted to prevailing prices and prefe…

Consumers need clear information to make healthier choices about what they eat

A JBS-owned rendering company, MOPAC, canceled all services for independent meat processors on Dec. 1. Without a place for their waste, small packers and the farms they serve are going under.

Stunning photos document the vast, fragile enterprise that feeds us

On the 4 September, the Government laid a new Bill before Parliament, rather drily called the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill. To many, this innocuous sounding piece of legislation may be seen a...

The 2024 report delves into the use of true cost accounting assessments of agrifood systems and identifies policy interventions aimed at transformation