1.1. Background The food and agriculture, water, and energy sectors are essential for the
development of modern societies and the well-being of people. The 2030 Agenda for …

Africa is particularly exposed to climate change as extreme weather is hitting the equator
hard and fiscal space and capacity of African governments to adapt is generally low. Even at …

The 2022 global food crisis, originating in long-standing vulnerabilities of international
markets and local food systems and aggravated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has …

As we move forward to meet the challenge of feeding 9.6 billion people by 2050, trade-offs
between agricultural productivity and environmental conservation are going to intensify …

With the COVID-19 pandemic, human development has come back to the EU's political
agenda. The EU is increasingly seeing its strategic value also in the geopolitical context …

Green transition1 is increasingly gaining traction in Africa. All 54 African countries have
signed the Paris Agreement, while most have ratified it and submitted their nationally …

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically worsened life for citizens in the world's poorest
countries, wiping out years of progress in poverty reduction. According to the latest figures …