The 2020 conference, "Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security" held in May 2014 assessed emerging shocks that threaten food and nutrition security (including food price spikes, conflicts, and climate change), discussed approaches and tools for building resilience, and identified...

This book (21 chapters) discusses the policies, programmes and investments in agricultural development that have reduced hunger and poverty across Africa, Asia and Latin America over the past half century. The 19 successes included are described in in-depth case studies that synthesize the evidence ...

This book explores the links among agriculture, nutrition and health and identifies ways to strengthen related policies and programmes. It includes 23 chapters which were originally commissioned as background papers or policy briefs for the conference "Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition ...

This book, inclusive of 19 chapters subdivided into four parts, highlights important policies, programmes and investments relevant to food and nutrition security that helped to substantially reduce hunger across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Specific chapters address community nutrition...

This book offers a comprehensive picture of the policy issues the world must address if it is to overcome poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation, and points the way to the policy actions required to meet these goals. Issues addressed by the book's 41 chapters include: food security; dietary ...

This book examines who the poorest and hungry people are; the actions that are required to improve welfare; and the strategies, policies and interventions that have been successful so far in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. The book consists of five chapters on the root causes of poverty and ...