This report presents an analysis of the impact and cost-effectiveness of 40 common interventions in food security, nutrition and climate resilience. These include interventions related to production systems, post-harvest management and processing, food availability and affordability, financial services, governance, nutritional health and behaviour change communication.

The report aims to provide a resource for policymakers in the food and nutrition space to understand the evidence behind various interventions.

This report examines agricultural extension approaches that integrate farmers’ knowledge to accelerate agroecological transitions in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Madagascar. It assesses how advisory services support sustainable farming, foster knowledge-sharing, and ensure long-term farmer engagement. The study compares different extension models, including Farmer Field Schools (FFS), Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) exchanges, e-Extension, and Innovation Platforms. It finds that peer-to-peer learning is particularly effective in promoting agroecological practices. The report also highlights the financial and social incentives that encourage farmers to participate, ranging from market access and input support to social recognition and networking opportunities.

this paper makes an assessment of risks to India’s future food security based on estimates of the impact of climate shocks on agricultural GVA, foodgrain production and yields, and proposes policy options, recognising the potential of fast evolving tech-enabled solutions for climate risk mitigation and adaptation, and the power of public policy in mitigating climate risks. Section II presents facts on various dimensions of rising climate risks in India. India’s agricultural production and consumption patterns are evaluated in Section III form the standpoint of their carbon emissions. Empirical estimates relating to the impact of climate shocks on production of foodgrains, yields and agriculture sector GVA are analysed in Section IV. Available range of policy interventions as the way forward are discussed in Section V, under an integrated greening the agriculture framework. Section V sets out the concluding observations.

Mult-actors Agricultural Innovation Platform (MAIP) is established in rural communities where farmers and key value chain actors become empowered through participatory action research, knowledge co-creation and application, market linkages and so on. MAIPs, as a model for inclusive and collaborative innovation, are increasingly deployed in farmer communities to solve the last-mile bottleneck, namely, the empowerment of smallholder farmers and value chain actors to access innovation and services to drive field-level change. MAIP has been preliminarily tested and piloted in several FAO field projects and demonstrated great potential for scale-up. Field results showed that MAIPs facilitated small-scale producers, family farmers and other agrifood system actors to generate and access context-specific agricultural innovations and services. Facilitation has proved crucial for stimulating and underpinning interactions among MAIP actors. This is the key to supporting co-innovation and co-learning processes and enabling individuals or organizations to reflect on their experience and encourage critical thinking. Qualified MAIP facilitators, as value chain intermediaries and coordinators, usually come from specialized MAIP actors (e.g. researchers, extension agents, agricultural educationists, private-sector brokers, non-governmental organization (NGO) activists, traders and processors). They are normally trained through the specially designed training of MAIP facilitator course or through the implementation of a MAIP. This curriculum draws on the experience of the training course “Training of master trainers for establishing and operating Multi-actors Agricultural Innovation Platforms” co-organized by FAO and CAU on 11–15 July 2023. It serves as a useful tool for empowering MAIP facilitators to play a critical role in establishing and operating MAIPs.

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food commissioned this compendium to gather and uplift the knowledge and evidence on agroecological and regenerative approaches and Indigenous foodways, recognizing that different forms of evidence, knowledge, and expertise are fundamental to shifting mindsets and the basis for action.

This open-access textbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for students and practitioners wishing to access the key disciplines and principles of wheat breeding. Edited by Matthew Paul Reynolds, Senior Scientist and head of Wheat Physiology at CIMMYT

The State of India’s Environment 2022 is the 9th annual edition in this series, and is the country’s most authoritative statement on the developments in the environment and related sectors.