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Fertilizer prices soften but remain constrained by trade policies

While conditions improve, critical levels of food insecurity remain in Gaza

FAO Food Price Index Declines for Third Consecutive Month

Will extreme weather lead to multiple breadbasket failures and threaten global food security?

Kicking Off the Google.org Project: First Workshop on Predicting Food Crisis Risks

FAO SOFA report 2019: New insights into food loss and waste

• by Sara Gustafson

Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage before reaching the retail stage of the food system, according to the newly-released FAO 2019 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report . While significant, this figure is less than an earlier FAO loss estimate of one-third of all food. Some regional losses are higher, reaching over 15% in North America and Europe and over 20% in Central and South Asia.

Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food security hotspots

• by FSP

For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need of food and nutrition assistance has remained above 100 million, according to the annual Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). The annual report aims to provide governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders with the data and analysis needed to respond to and prevent the crises that lead to such massive food-insecure populations. In a first-ever mid-year update to the report, GRFC partners provide a revised look at the severity of current global food crises in terms of the number of acutely food-insecure people, as well as the status of the crisis: Improving, deteriorating, or stable.

How small businesses are driving growth across African agriculture

• by Swati Malhotra, AGRA

A new report from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that millions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) source directly from millions more smallholder farmers across Africa South of the Sahara. These SMEs, often led by women, include food processors, wholesalers, and retailers. SMEs provide a range of services, from transport and logistics to the sale of inputs such as fertilizer and seed to farmers.

To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system

• by Sara Gustafson

The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released UN climate change report , which warns that we must rethink how we produce our food—and quickly—to avoid the most devastating impacts of global food production, including massive deforestation, staggering biodiversity loss and accelerating climate change.