The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
The number of people affected by hunger globally has been rising since 2014. This report spotlights the links between food security and nutrition, introduces new analysis of the affordability of healthy diets, presents health and climate-change costs associated with food consumption and concludes by discussing policies and strategies to transform food systems.
The report is also available in a device-responsive HMTL version
This annual report utilizes the commodity, policy and country expertise of both OECD and FAO and Member Countries to assess prospects for the coming decade’s global agricultural commodity markets. This year’s edition features a short scenario on COVID-19.
Since the first assessment in 1948, the report has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. One of the key findings in this edition is that while deforestation continues, it has been reduced in the last five years.
Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the agri-food sector is likely to display more resilience to the crisis than other sectors. Featured in this report is a comparison of the Great Lockdown to the Great Recession, as well as revisions to the FAO food price indices.
