The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 was jointly prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The publication was carried out under the direction of Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo and José Rosero Moncayo, with the overall coordination of Cindy Holleman, the Editor of the publication, and the overall guidance of Máximo Torero Cullen, all of whom are from the FAO Economic and Social Development Stream (ES). The development of the report was guided by a Steering Committee consisting of agency representatives from the five co-publishing partners: Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo (Chair), Sara Savastano (IFAD), Victor Aguayo (UNICEF), Arif Husain (WFP) and Francesco Branca (WHO). Tisorn Songsermsawas (IFAD), Chika Hayashi, Jo Jewell and Vilma Tyler (UNICEF), Eric Branckaert and Saskia de Pee (WFP) and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO) contributed to the coordination and provided technical support. Valuable comments and final approval of the report were provided by the executive heads and senior staff of the five co-authoring agencies.
Chapter 1 of the report was written by Cindy Holleman with inputs from Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo, Lynnette Neufeld, Anne Kepple, Jakob Rauschendorfer, José Rosero Moncayo and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi and Tisorn Songsermsawas (IFAD), Jo Jewell and Rizwan Yusfali (UNICEF), Sabrina Kuri (WFP), and Karen McColl and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO).
Chapter 2 of the report was coordinated by Anne Kepple (FAO). Section 2.1 was written by Carlo Cafiero, Anne Kepple and José Rosero Moncayo with inputs from Piero Conforti, Alejandro Grinspun, Marco Knowles, Vanya Slavchevska, Sara Viviani and Firas Yassin (FAO). Box 3 was written by Boubaker Ben Belhassen, Aikaterini Kavallari and Holger Matthey (FAO). Key inputs for the 2030 projections of undernourishment were provided by David Laborde (International Food Policy Research Institute [IFPRI]). Olivier Lavagne d’Ortigue (FAO) provided data visualization and editorial support. Section 2.2 was written by Elaine Borghi, Giovanna Gatica Domínguez and Alexandra Humphreys (WHO), with inputs from Chika Hayashi, Julia Krasevec, Richard Kumapley and Vrinda Mehra (UNICEF), Anne Kepple (FAO), and Monica Flores, Katrina Lundberg, Lisa Rogers, Gretchen Stevens and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO). The International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH), Pelotas, Brazil provided some of the data and code used for the inequality analysis. Section 2.3 was written by Cindy Holleman with inputs from Valentina Conti, Anne Kepple, Lynnette Neufeld and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO) and Saskia de Pee (WFP). José Rosero Moncayo (FAO) provided technical editorial support to the sections of this chapter.
Chapter 3 of the report was coordinated by Cindy Holleman (FAO). Section 3.1 was written by Valentina Pernechele with Ekaterina Krivonos and Audun Lem (FAO), with inputs from Molly Ahern, Cosimo Avesani, Catherine Bessy, Marcio Castro de Souza, Valentina Conti, Diana Fernández de la Reguera, Nicole Franz, Jessie Lin, Markus Lipp, Lynnette Neufeld, George Rapsomanikis, Jakob Rauschendorfer, Carla Vaca Eyzaguirre and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Saskia de Pee (WFP), and Karen McColl, Benn McGrady, Kathryn Robertson and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO). The estimation of indicators of policy support to food and agriculture were provided by David Laborde with Abdullah Mamun (IFPRI). Section 3.2 was written by Carla Vaca Eyzaquirre with Valentina Conti, Diana Fernández de la Reguera, Cindy Holleman, Ekaterina Krivonos and Jakob Rauschendorfer and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), with inputs from Giovanni Carrasco Azzini, Chaterine Bessy, Markus Lipp, Valentina Pernechele and George Rapsomanikis (FAO), Ole Boysen (University College Dublin), Joyce Njoro, Jyotsna Puri, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Tisorn Songsermsawas and Victoria Wise (IFAD), Jo Jewell and Rizwan Yusfali (UNICEF), Sabrina Kuri (WFP), and Hyun Jin, Karen McColl, Benn McGrady, Kathryn Robertson and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO). Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo provided technical editorial support to the sections of this chapter.
Chapter 4 of the report was coordinated by Cindy Holleman (FAO). Section 4.1 was written by Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo with Cindy Holleman and Ekaterina Krivonos (FAO), with input from Martin Cicowiez, Valentina Conti, Valentina Pernechele, Jakob Rauschendorfer and Carla Vaca Eyzaguirre (FAO), Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi (IFAD), Sabrina Kuri (WFP), and Karen McColl and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO). The results of simulating global policy support changes using the Modelling International Relations under Applied General Equilibrium (MIRAGRODEP) models were provided by David Laborde with Joseph Glauber (International Food Policy Research Institute [IFPRI]). Section 4.2 was written by Giovanni Carrasco Azzini and Cindy Holleman (FAO), Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi (IFAD), Sabrina Kuri (WFP), and Karen McColl and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO), with inputs from Cosimo Avesani, Diana Fernández de la Reguera, Jessie Lin, Lynette Neufeld, Ekaterina Krivonos, Valentina Pernechele, Jakob Rauschendorfer, Carla Vaca Eyzaguirre and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Daniel Anavitarte, Samir Bejaoui, Romina Cavatassi, Sinafikeh Gemessa, Daniel Higgins, Mikael Kauttu, Giuseppe Maggio, Anni Mandelin, Thanh Tung Nguyen, Rasha Omar and Tisorn Songsermsawas (IFAD), Saskia de Pee (WFP), Jo Jewell and Rizwan Yusfali (UNICEF) and Kaia Engesveen, Hyun Jin, Katrina Lundberg, Simone Moraes Raszl, Jessica Pullar, Manasi Shukla Trivedi and Camilla Haugstveit Warren (WHO). Section 4.3 was written by Jessie Lin and Giovanni Carrasco Azzini (FAO), with inputs from Carla Vaca Eyzaguirre, Cindy Holleman, Ekaterina Krivonos, Pascal Liu and Jakob Rauschendorfer (FAO), Aslihan Arslan, Cristina Chiarella, Tawfiq El-Zabri, Athur Mabiso, Michele Pennella, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Tisorn Songermsawas, Nicolas Syed, Sakiusa Tubuna and Emanuele Zucchini (IFAD), Jo Jewell and Rizwan Yusfali (UNICEF), Lina Mahy, Karen McColl, Jessica Pullar and Marzella Wüstefeld (WHO). Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo provided technical editorial support to the sections of this chapter.
Chapter 5 of the report was written by Cindy Holleman and Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo, with inputs from Anne Kepple and José Rosero Moncayo (FAO).
Numerous colleagues from different technical units and departments across the five co-publishing agencies provided valuable technical comments and input to the report. An agency-wide technical clearance process facilitated a comprehensive review by many technical experts from the five co- authoring agencies. Listing each of the contributions would be challenging and furthermore increase the risk of important omissions.
Abdul Sattar, Sara Viviani and Firas Yassin were responsible for preparing undernourishment and food security data in Section 2.1 and Annex 1A, with inputs from Marinella Cirillo, Filippo Gheri, Gabriela Interlenghi, Adeeba Ishaq, Talent Manyani, Ana Moltedo and María Rodríguez, under the supervision of Carlo Cafiero (FAO). Supporting data were provided by the Food Balance Sheets (FBS) team, led by Salar Tayyib of the FAO Statistics Division (ESS). Carlo Cafiero prepared the 2030 projections of undernourishment with input from Adeeba Ishaq, Abdul Sattar and Firas Yassin (FAO), with key input provided by David Laborde as part of a research collaboration with IFPRI. Giovanna Gatica Domínguez, Elaine Borghi and Alexandra Humphreys (WHO), and Richard Kumapley and Vrinda Mehra (UNICEF) were responsible for consolidating the nutrition data in Section 2.2, with input from Julia Krasevec (UNICEF). Giovanna Gatica Dominguez and Elaine Borghi (WHO) and Richard Kumapley and Vrinda Mehra (UNICEF) were responsible for the analyses in Section 2.2 and Annex 2. Giovanna Gatica Domínguez and Alexandra Humphreys (WHO) were responsible for the development of the COVID-19 pandemic case studies included in Box 4 of Section 2.2, with inputs from Elaine Borghi (WHO) and Chika Hayashi and Richard Kumapley (UNICEF). Elisa Dominguez and Giovanna Gatica Domínguez (WHO) and Julia Krasevec and Richard Kumapley (UNICEF) contributed to the analyses of national surveys used in the development of the case studies, as part of the UNICEF-WHO-WB Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME) work. Valentina Conti and Cindy Holleman (FAO) were responsible for preparing the analysis of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet in Section 2.3 and Annex 3, with input from Veronica Boero, Jean Marie Vianney Munyeshyaka, Lynnette Neufeld, Michele Vollaro and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Leah Costlow, Anna Herforth and William A. Masters (Tufts University), and Yan Bai, Nada Hamadeh and Marko Olavi Rissanen (World Bank). Juan José Egas Yerovi carried out revisions of the data and figures in Section 3.1.
Support for report production came from Christin Campbell (consulting editor), Giovanni Carrasco Azzini and Daniela Verona in the FAO Economic and Social Development Stream.
The FAO Meeting Branch and Language Services Branch of Governing Bodies Servicing Division (CSG) carried out the translations, in addition to the contributors mentioned above.
The Publishing Group (OCCP) of the FAO’s Office of Communications provided editorial support, design and layout, as well as production coordination, for editions in all six official languages.
