Economic policies over past years and decades have had negative impacts on living standards, the private sector and the environment, driving a deep crisis that is hitting ordinary Pakistanis…

Tobias Haque |

The World Bank-supported JEEViKA program in rural Bihar has improved women's nutrition awareness through self-help groups, notably benefiting children's health. The transformation…

Deepika Anand, Mohammad Anas, Raj Ganguly |

In 1990, about half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East Asia and the Pacific were living in extreme poverty (defined as living on less than what today…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner |

It has been over three years since COVID-19 started disrupting livelihoods and brought in-person survey data collection to a near complete halt. Broad immunization against COVID-19 quickly emerged…

Yannick Markhof, Philip Randolph Wollburg, Alberto Zezza, Giulia Altomare, Maryam Gul, Camilla Shuang Liu |

A more stable, equitable, and sustainable food system is needed to connect the world’s 600 million farms with its 8 billion consumers, and capitalize on the ability to both feed the hungry while…

Juergen Voegele |

Measuring how easily people can access safe, sufficient, and nutritious food is crucial to tracking progress towards achieving food security – one of the most pressing development goals of recent…

Edie Purdie, Yan Bai, Inyoung Song, Rui Costa |

Human capital development is essential for sustained and inclusive growth. The wealth of modern nations depends not only on their natural resources: it also depends on their human resources.…

Nathalie Lahire, Ioana Botea, Eliane Mbende |

On July 12, 2023, the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2023 (published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and jointly produced with fellow UN agencies) provided…

José Rosero Moncayo, Nada Hamadeh, Marko Rissanen, Valentina Conti, Yan Bai |

There is something upliftingly glorious about homegrown solutions. They fill us with a sense of pride, a can-do spirit that makes us feel invincible. They give us hope for the future, knowing that…

Samuel Kwadwo Owusu Baafi |

Malnutrition is one of the world’s most serious but least-addressed development challenges. Its human and economic costs are enormous, falling hardest on poor people, especially women and children…

Juan Pablo Uribe |