EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2024: STATISTICS AND TRENDS

The Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2024 was jointly prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia; the International Fund For Agricultural Development (IFAD) for Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia; the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE); and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Office for Europe in close cooperation with the FAO Agrifood Economics Division (ESA) and the FAO Statistics Division (ESS).

Senior Policy Officer Tamara Nanitashvili coordinated the preparation of the document, drafted part I of the report and led production under the overall supervision and guidance of Viorel Gutu, Assistant DirectorGeneral and Regional Representative for Europe and Central Asia, with the assistance of Raimund Jehle, Regional Programme Leader

The collaboration of FAO, IFAD, UNDP, UNECE, UNICEF, WHO and WMO was supported and facilitated by Mary Kenny, Valentina Gasbarri, Aniko Nemeth, Valeria Rocca and Fanni Temesvari of FAO, Alessandra Garbero of IFAD, Monica Moldovan of UNDP, Marit Nilses of UNECE and Natalia Berghi of WMO. The report was made possible by the contributions of an interdisciplinary team of experts, in particular Tamara Nanitashvili and Raimund Jehle from the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. At IFAD, the report was prepared by Alessandra Garbero and Taylan Kiymaz. At UNICEF, input was provided by Karan Courtney Haag. At UNDP, contributions were provided by Monica Moldovan. At UNECE, contributions were provided by Sonja Koeppel and Marit Nilses. From WHO, inputs were provided by Clare Farrand, Rory McKeown and Oliver Schmoll. From WMO, contributions were provided by the Services and Member Services departments.

Máximo Torero Cullen (Chief Economist), David Laborde (Director of the Agrifood Economics and Policy Division) and José Rosero Moncayo (Chief Statistician and Director of the Statistics Division) from FAO headquarters provided guidance on the structure and content of the report. Olivier Lavagne d’Ortigue from ESS provided support for data visualization. Valuable comments and inputs were provided by Valentina Conti, Juan Feng, Adeeba Ishaq and Anne Kepple from ESS; Cindy Holleman, Giovanni Carrasco Azzini, Andrea Cattaneo, Ahmad Sadiddin, Eduardo Nakasone Uechi and Marco Sánchez Cantillo from ESA; Ti Kian Seow, Maria Xipsiti and Trudy Wijnhoven of the Food and Nutrition Division (ESN); Azeta Cungu and Johanna Schmidt from the Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP); Preeti Koirala from the Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division (ESF); and Monika Tothova of the Markets and Trade Division (EST). Marco Sánchez Cantillo provided technical clearance of the report for ESA.

At the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, Laura Neninger supported with the co-publishing agreement, and Victoria Kalinin and Irina Tarakanova coordinated the publishing process, with valuable support from colleagues at FAO headquarters in Rome. Special thanks go to consultants and principal authors Vladimir Smakhtin and Cheng Fang. Thanks also are due to Matthew Anderson for his editorial support, FAO translation services for translating the document into Russian, and Jose Ignacio Ramirez for graphic design and layout.