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This page brings together a wide range of FSP and external resources that are useful for policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders who are interested in food security and related topics. Select a resource category by clicking on the tags to the left.
Apr 1st, 2025
Preparing for the Next Crisis by Harmonizing Measures of Food Security
This brief reflects on research generated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights three key limiting problems that emerged. These problems motivate three best practices that research and policy communities should consider when designing questionnaires and implementing surveys.
Feb 28th, 2025
Best Practices for Targeting Social Benefits to Ensure Food Security
This document outlines the best practices for the targeting of social programs, highlighting the key policy decisions involved and identifying factors to consider when making these decisions.
Dec 30th, 2021
Trade Policies for Improved Food Security
This document outlines specific recommendations for best practices in trade facilitation and related policies for improved food security in SSA countries, based on relevant recent research
Aug 16th, 2021
Prevention of food losses across the value chain in Africa
This best practice document provides evidence-based practices for food loss prevention across the value chain based on a review of practices that have been effective in the African context.
Aug 9th, 2021
Enhancing Resilience to Food Crises
This best practice document provides evidence-based recommendations for enhancing household resilience to food crises in West Africa.
Mar 16th, 2020
Climate Change Best Practices
This best practice document provides some specific recommendations for best practices for climate change adaptation and mitigation for agriculture in developing countries, based on recent research.
Mar 1st, 2019
Early Warning Early Action Systems
Existing food security and agricultural early warning systems include FAO’s Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS), USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS), which monitors commodity prices, food security, and trade, the World Food Programme Seasonal Monitor, and FAO’s Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) system, among others. These systems provide regular updates of food prices, food production and supply levels, harvest forecasts, weather forecasts, and food assistance needs, as well as targeted alerts regarding ongoing or anticipated food security crises at national and regional levels.
Mar 29th, 2018
ICTs for Agriculture
This best practice document provides some specific recommendations for best practices for ICT use in developing country agriculture, based on relevant recent research.