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Conducted at a time of rising humanitarian needs, declining resources and systemic reforms reshaping collective action, this synthesis draws on 65 WFP evaluations carried out between 2018 and 2025 and assesses WFP’s role, strengths and challenges in...

EvalforEarth is a merged Community of Practice (CoP) on evaluation for food security, environment, agriculture and rural development. Its founding and main sponsoring partners are the Evaluation Offices of FAO, WFP, CGIAR, and the GEF, with support...

The 2025 Global Impact Evaluation Forum, hosted by WFP in partnership with BMZ and Norad, convenes practitioners and policymakers to advance evidence partnerships that can drive more coherent, cost‑effective, and localized action across the UN system...

The Digital agriculture and AI innovation roadmap crystallizes a shared vision: an agrifood future where innovation is inclusive, trusted, and relentlessly focused on impact. Developed through a multistakeholder dialogue, the roadmap translates the...

The monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) system is critical to strengthen field-level agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS) systems and thereby support smallholder farmers’ access to agricultural innovations. However, most national...

Carbon markets are increasingly recognized as a central instrument of international climate cooperation, yet their potential to support the decarbonization of food systems remains largely untapped. Food systems—spanning agriculture, land use and land...

There is scope for applying the principles of social neuroscience investigations to the field of evaluation. Evidence suggests that doing so would likely enhance the transformative potential of evaluation by strengthening evaluators’ resilience, and...

How to Ensure the Effective Utilization of Feedback and Recommendations from Evaluation Reports in Decision-Making Summary of the Discussion Although development organizations recognize the importance of stakeholder feedback, many fail to...

This paper aims to communicate and outline the opportunity and role for geospatial information for us all to ‘Rescue the SDGs’. It was developed by IAEG-SDGs’ Working Group on Geospatial Information via a small and focused writing team, composed of...

The UNDP–FAO Climate Action Review (CAR) Tool aims to support adaptation planners’ and practitioners’ transition from the planning to the implementation stages to accelerate transformative climate action in the agriculture and land use sectors. To do...

Emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) face a historic investment opportunity: delivering USD 7.5 trillion annually of investment to reignite growth, reduce poverty, and meet the broader set of Sustainable Development Goals. While public...

In order to meet the demands of a growing global population, agriculture needs to produce about 50 percent more food, feed and fibre by 2050 compared with the volumes it generated in 2012, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture...

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development releases its latest white paper: “ Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity: Towards a new pact for mobilizing capital, reforming systems, and driving transformation at scale.” As...

The purpose of Transforming food and agriculture through a systems approach is to clarify what a systems approach involves in practice across agrifood systems. It explains what a systems approach means in the context of agrifood systems, why it...