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A local farmer harvests sorghum produced from seeds donated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through the "Improving Seeds" project.
© UNPhoto
environment

The worldwide production of agrofuels

Drawing of activists from la Via Campesina, holding up their flag
Right to food

Rethinking the right to food: how the Food Sovereignty Movement (Via Campesina) challenges the human rights system

nutrition

Report: The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World in 2023

UN Report: Global hunger numbers rose to as many as 828 million in 2021
United Nations

UN Report: Global hunger numbers rose to as many as 828 million in 2021

Woman on plantation
climate change

FAO: Disasters take heavy toll on agri-food systems as new threats emerge

A woman plants some seeds while taking part in a Sahelian plants grow testing and reforestation project in Malamawa village, Zinder Region, Niger on July 30
© FAO/Luis Tato
Land Rights

Land grabbing: what does it truly mean?

People at the marketplace of Lolachat in Uganda
Uganda

Think Globally, Act Locally: Building Rural Climate Resilience in Karamoja, Uganda

Mother with children in a Cambodian house.
© Maddalena Righi
Cambodia

Cambodia, EBA and the Bloody Sugar Industry: the impact of international trade on local communities’ food security

Farmers work the rice fields in Palung, Nepal
© UN photo
environment

Land tenure and agrofuels