Cost of a Healthy Diet Dashboard
The Cost of a Healthy Diet dashboard offers an interactive platform for analyzing the affordability of nutritious diets globally. Users can explore country and region level data on the indicators of cost of a healthy diet per person per day, presented through dynamic maps and graphs. The dashboard enables comparisons across time and regions and allows users to examine the contribution of specific food groups such as fruits, vegetables, animal source foods, legumes, nuts, seeds, oils, and fats relative to staple foods within a least cost nutritious diet.
Export Restrictions Tracker
The Food and Fertilizer Export Restrictions Tracker is a tool developed to monitor and document export restrictions on food products and fertilizers implemented by countries during global crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. By gathering data from various sources, including news articles and official government statements, the tracker provides up-to-date information on these trade policies and assesses their potential impacts on global food security.
High global phosphate prices pose potential food security risks
Fertilizer prices experienced a significant surge in 2021, driven by the post-COVID 19 global economic recovery. Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine propelled prices even higher. Broad economic sanctions on key fertilizer exporters Russia and Belarus exempted agricultural products but triggered further economic disruptions. Overall, the conflict heightened market uncertainties regarding the availability of potash, phosphate, and nitrogen-based fertilizers in international trade.
What do we know about the future of measuring food systems?
Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in the future, and the body of research exploring these challenges is growing rapidly. This note is part of a series developed by the CGIAR Foresight Initiative to summarize what we know today about the future of various aspects of food systems. The goal of these notes is to serve as a quick reference, point to further information, and help guide future research and decisions.
Key messages
Learning Support for a Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security
The Learning Support for a Sub-Saharan Africa Multi-Country Climate Resilience Program for Food Security, launched in 2023, aims to enhance food security and climate resilience across 14 African countries. This collaboration among CGIAR, the World Food Programme, and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) has three pillars: scaling disaster risk financing, transforming food systems with sustainable school meals and clean cooking, and supporting smallholder farmers.
One year of war in Gaza: Food emergency continues with no end in sight
With conflict in the Middle East now escalating into Lebanon and beyond, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to face dire food security conditions. One year has passed since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, triggering the Israeli military retaliation and war that have killed more than 41,000 Palestinians and devastated the livelihoods of Gaza’s population of over 2 million.
Debt Distress and the Right to Food in Africa
More than half of low-income countries are at risk of debt distress or have already defaulted. The debt crisis, while exacerbated by recent crises, has been looming for several years. According to the United Nations, 3.3 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest repayments than on education or health, and in sub-Saharan Africa, governments are spending 53 percent of revenue on debt servicing.
Integrating Climate-Smart Agriculture with Poverty Reduction and Food Security Goals
Food systems lie at the nexus of the world’s climate change adaptation, poverty reduction, and food and nutrition security goals. A poorly functioning or environmentally unsustainable food system can have severe negative consequences for all three factors, particularly for the poor populations who rely on agri-food systems for their livelihoods. In the OECD’s 2024 Development Co-operation Report, researchers in Chapter 21 examine how climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices can be better integrated to help bridge the gap between climate, poverty, and food security
Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies
After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan is now confronting its most severe food security crisis on record. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, released June 27, reveals a grim picture: More than half the population is facing acute food insecurity, with a high risk of famine in multiple regions if immediate action is not taken.
Transforming food systems for sustainable healthy diets: A global imperative
The impacts of our diets extend well beyond mealtime to affect our health and well-being. Unhealthy diets underpin many public health challenges, including all forms of malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Many countries are facing a double burden of malnutrition—meaning that undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight and obesity, or diet-related NCDs. Unhealthy diets are the leading risk factor for NCDs, which are responsible for more than 73% of deaths globally.