The CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) combines high-quality nutritional and social science research capacity with development partnerships to generate innovative, robust solutions that...

The adoption of safe food production standards and the related certification systems by farmers play a crucial role in safeguarding public health, environmental integrity, and meeting regulatory requirements. Production standards consist of a system...

This paper analyzes the current uptake of small-scale irrigation (SSI), its profitability, and the constraints to its broader adoption in the Sahel using literature and survey data from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.

Salt-affected soils, characterized by high soluble salts (saline) or exchangeable sodium (sodic), impact plant growth and occur globally, especially in arid and coastal regions.

This brief provides a snapshot of the policy and institutional processes aimed at accelerating the sustainable transformation of Uganda’s Agrifood systems.

This course uses a stepwise approach to identify critical entry points for actions within the agrifood systems to improve the availability, accessibility, affordability, and consumption of nutritious food as part of healthy diets. Explains the need t...

What should we be eating? Is there one right answer? Is it as simple as choosing to eat well? Food must be nutritious to grow, work and thrive.

The 2024 edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets (SOCO 2024) explores complex linkages between food trade and nutrition. It generates evidence to identify how trade affects dietary patterns and nutritional outcomes.

Uncovering the true cost of food is the first step in making agrifood systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

This transformation is critical for building food systems that can sustainably provide adequate, nutritious food to a growing population that is resilient to external shocks, including climate change and economic instability, while protecting the en...

To harness these economic opportunities in agrifood systems, young people must have skills and knowledge that match those demanded by rapidly transforming food systems. Such training must go beyond formal education.

This study examined how socio-cultural norms linked with rural food systems can potentially exert adverse effects on women’s diets.