Do school feeding and education play a role in keeping girls safe?
When schools were closed during a five-month period of lockdown in Kenya this year, almost 4,000 schoolgirls became pregnant in one county alone.
Impact Evaluation in the humanitarian spaceResilience in complex food crises: The case for building better evidence
In 2019, the world recorded 135 million "acutely food-insecure people in crisis or worse". More than three quarters of them lived in countries affected by conflict or extreme weather events.
ReportGlobal Report on Food Crises 2020
The Global Report on Food Crises tracks the numbers and locations of acutely food-insecure people most in need of emergency food, nutrition and livelihood assistance during the peak or worst point in 2019. The report is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity...
ReportThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are...
Global development indicators are not just numbers
On July 13th, the 2020 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World was presented by its authors - FAO, IFAD, WHO, WFP and UNICEF - at the UN High-Level Policy Forum on Sustainable Development in New York.
e-learningSustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
Free e-learning course of 3 hours developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Bioversity International. The course includes: The relationship between...
ReportThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2019)
Safeguarding against economic slowdowns and downturns. The latest edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2019) gives an updated estimate of the number of hungry people in the world, including regional and national breakdowns, and the latest data on child stunting and...
ReportWFP Annual Evaluation Report 2018
WFP annual evaluation report explains the purpose of evaluation and how it is evolving in line with WFP’s strategic direction and trends in WFP’s operating environment, providing an overview of centralized and decentralized evaluations completed, conducted and planned in the period 2018 to 2019. In...
Report2019 Global Report on Food Crises
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance. The worst food crises in 2018 were, in order of severity, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Sudan...
ReportRegional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018
The Europe and Central Asia region encompasses great economic, social and environmental diversity, and its countries are facing various food security and nutrition challenges. While they have made significant progress in reducing the prevalence of undernourishment over the past two decades, new...
ReportAsia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018
Accelerating progress towards the SDGs The 2018 Asia-Pacific regional report on Food Security and Nutrition focuses on the urgent need to accelerate work across this region to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal on Zero Hunger; presents new analyses and updates on key indicators of food...
ReportRegional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Africa 2018
The 2018 Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition reports that the food security situation on the continent continues to worsen. The worsening situation in Africa is due to difficult global economic conditions and, in many countries, conflict and climate-related disasters, sometimes...
BookWorld Food and Agriculture - Statistical Pocketbook 2018
This publication presents selected key indicators related to agriculture and food security, as well as a variety of dimensions of agriculture and food security along four focus areas: setting, hunger dimensions, food supply and environment.
Other2018 Hunger Map
The WFP Hunger Map provides an overview on the countries' situation with regard to the prevalence of undernurishment across countries.
Evaluation SynthesisFAO Programme Evaluation Report 2017
The Programme Evaluation Report 2017 is now available to download. This report aims to provide Member Countries and other readers with an analytical summary of the emerging and recurrent trends in evaluations, and to discuss the main results, gaps and lessons found in FAO’s work in the period of...
Evaluation Synthesis2018 Annual Report on Results and Impact of IFAD Operations
The 2018 ARRI presents a synthesis of IFAD’s performance and highlights results and systemic issues from independent evaluations conducted in 2017. The quantitative analysis draws on ratings from 320 evaluations conducted since 2002
Improving Agriculture and Food Security through Evaluation
Call now open for the 9th AfrEA International Conference.
ReportWFP Annual Evaluation Report 2017
This evaluation report provides an overview of centralized and decentralized evaluations completed, conducted and planned by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the period 2016-2018 and highlights the various types of evaluation evidence available to support the organization's strategic priorities...
What works in improving food security and nutrition in very poor communities?
I would be interested in examples from your evaluation experience of projects that have been successful in improving food security, and in particular food access, in extremely poor communities: could you please share them?