The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023 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. 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 and Vilma Tyler (UNICEF), Eric Branckaert (WFP) and Luz De Regil (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 (FAO), with inputs from Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo, Anne Kepple, José Rosero Moncayo, Lynnette Neufeld, Pilar Santacoloma and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Sarah Lowder (IFAD), Eric Branckaert (WFP), Chika Hayashi (UNICEF), and Katrina Lundberg and Karen McColl (WHO).
Chapter 2 of the report was coordinated by Anne Kepple (FAO). Section 2.1 was written by Carlo Cafiero, Anne Kepple, José Rosero Moncayo and Sara Viviani with key inputs from Piero Conforti, Valentina Conti and Firas Yassin (FAO). Section 2.2 was written by Valentina Conti, with inputs from Veronica Boero, Carlo Cafiero, Anne Kepple and Michele Vollaro (FAO), and Yan Bai (World Bank). Olivier Lavagne d’Ortigue (FAO) provided data visualization and editorial support for Sections 2.1 and 2.2. Section 2.3 was written by Robert Johnston and Chika Hayashi (UNICEF), with inputs from Julia Krasevec, Vrinda Mehra and Yoshito Kawakatsu (UNICEF), Elaine Borghi, Richard Kumapley, Katrina Lundberg and Karen McColl (WHO), and Anne Kepple (FAO). Nona Reuter (UNICEF) provided support for data visualization in Section 2.3. José Rosero Moncayo provided technical guidance and editorial support to the sections of this chapter.
Chapter 3 of the report was written by Cindy Holleman and Sophie de Bruin (FAO), with inputs from Giovanni Carrasco Azzini, Andrea Cattaneo, Lucia Latino, Theresa McMenomy, Pilar Santacoloma, Kostas Stamoulis and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Florence A. Benn, Alessandra Garbero and Sarah Lowder (IFAD), Vilma Tyler (UNICEF), Sabrina Kuri and Isis Nuñez Ferrera (WFP), Katrina Lundberg, Karen McColl, Lina Mahy and Marjolein Smit-Mwanamwenge (WHO), and Tom Reardon and Lenis Saweda Onipede Liverpool-Tasie (Michigan State University). Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo provided technical guidance and 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 Cindy Holleman (FAO), with inputs from Michael Dolislager (Messiah University), and Lenis Saweda Onipede Liverpool-Tasie and Tom Reardon (Michigan State University). Further inputs were provided by Agnieszka Balcerzak, Carlo Cafiero, Giles Hanley-Cook, Bridget Holmes, Adeeba Ishaq, Lucia Latino, Ana Moltedo, Lynnette Neufeld, Pilar Santacoloma and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Sarah Lowder, Jyotsna Puri and Alessandro Rosi (IFAD), Isis Nuñez Ferrera (WFP), Vilma Tyler (UNICEF), and Katrina Lundberg and Karen McColl (WHO). Section 4.2 was written by Lucia Latino and Cindy Holleman (FAO), with inputs from Carlo Cafiero, Adeeba Ishaq, Anne Kepple, Ana Moltedo, Pilar Santacoloma, Sara Viviani and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Isis Nuñez Ferrera and Sabrina Kuri (WFP), Chika Hayashi, Robert Johnston, Yoshito Kawakatsu and Vilma Tyler (UNICEF), and Katrina Lundberg, Karen McColl and Jason Montez (WHO). Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo provided technical guidance and editorial support to the sections of this chapter.
Chapter 5 of the report was coordinated by Giovanni Carrasco Azzini (FAO). Section 5.1 was written by Giovanni Carrasco Azzini and Kostas Stamoulis (FAO), with inputs from Cindy Holleman, Hajnalka Petrics, Pilar Santacoloma and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Aslihan Arslan, Daniel Higgins, Sarah Lowder, Athur Mabiso, Robson Mutandi, Joyce Njoro and Victoria Wise (IFAD), and Kaia Engesveen, Ceyhun Gungor, Katrina Lundberg, Karen McColl and Simone Moraes Raszl (WHO). Section 5.2 was written by Preetmoninder Lidder and Giovanni Carrasco Azzini (FAO), with inputs from Pilar Santacoloma, Kostas Stamoulis and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO), Ilaria Firmian, Marup Hossain, Sarah Lowder and Vibhuti Mendiratta (IFAD), and Katrina Lundberg, Karen McColl, Ceyhun Gungor, Simone Moraes Raszl, Lina Mahy and Marjolein Smit-Mwanamwenge (WHO). The section benefited from an internal call for agrifood technologies and innovation case studies, in which contributions were received from Elena Aguayo, Manuel Anta, Vittorio Fattori, Patrizia Fracassi, Pablo García Campos, Elena Ilie, Keya Mukherjee, Jia Ni, Cortney Price, Rosa Rolle, Ana Rueda Garcia, Ti Kian Seow, Beate Scherf, Emma Siliprandi and Elvira Uccello (FAO), and Kalpana Beesabathuni, Klaus Kraemer and Srujith Lingala (Sight and Life). Section 5.3 was written by Cecilia Marocchino, Ana Puhac and Marcello Vicovaro (FAO), with inputs from Giovanni Carrasco Azzini, Stepanka Gallatova, Kostas Stamoulis and Ny You (FAO), Sarah Lowder and Tisorn Songsermsawas (IFAD), and Katrina Lundberg and Karen McColl (WHO). The section benefited from an internal call for governance experiences at subnational and local levels, in which contributions were received from Giaime Berti, Carmen Zuleta Ferrari, Sara Granados, Gareth Haysom, Joao Intini, Betina Bergmann Madsen, Guido Santini, Fernando Castro Verastegui and Rebeccah Wanjiru (FAO). Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo provided technical guidance and editorial support to the sections of this chapter.
Chapter 6 of the report was written by Marco V. Sánchez Cantillo, with inputs from Giovanni Carrasco Azzini, Cindy Holleman, 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.
Data inputs
Firas Yassin and Sara Viviani (FAO) were responsible for preparing undernourishment and food security data, respectively, in Section 2.1 and Annex 1A, with inputs from Filippo Gheri, Adeeba Ishaq, Talent Manyani, Ana Moltedo, María Rodríguez and Abdul Sattar, and under the supervision of Carlo Cafiero (FAO). Supporting data were provided by the Food Balance Sheets team, led by Salar Tayyib of the FAO Statistics Division. Carlo Cafiero prepared the 2030 projections of undernourishment, with the assistance of Adeeba Ishaq and with key input provided by David Laborde (FAO). Valentina Conti (FAO) was responsible for preparing the analysis of the cost and affordability of a healthy diet in Section 2.2 and Annex 3, with inputs from Veronica Boero, Carlo Cafiero and Michele Vollaro (FAO), and Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Yan Bai, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Nishant Yonzan and Christoph Lakner (World Bank). Vrinda Mehra, Robert Johnston, Julia Krasevec and Chika Hayashi (UNICEF) were responsible for the analyses in Section 2.3. Vrinda Mehra and Julia Krasevec (UNICEF), and Richard Kumapley and Monica Flores (WHO) were responsible for consolidating nutrition data in Annex 2. The systematic literature review of evidence from scientific studies for Sections 3.2 and 5.1 was conducted using an integrated research tool developed by FAO’s Data Lab for Statistical Innovation and implemented by Marco Scarnò, with Carola Fabi, Craig Matadeen and Christian Mongeau (FAO). The demand analysis in Section 4.1 was conducted by Michael Dolislager (Messiah University), with inputs from Lenis Saweda Onipede Liverpool-Tasie and Tom Reardon (Michigan State University), and Agnieszka Balcerzak, Giles Hanley-Cook, Cindy Holleman, Bridget Holmes, Lynnette Neufeld and Trudy Wijnhoven (FAO). Caleb Reichert (Messiah University) provided geospatial analysis and mapping used in Sections 4.1 and 4.2. Lucia Latino conducted the analysis of the subnational cost and affordability of a healthy diet in Section 4.2, with inputs from Carlo Cafiero, Cindy Holleman and Ana Moltedo (FAO). Sara Viviani (FAO) conducted the survey analysis for the calculation of moderate or severe food insecurity based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale in Section 4.2, with inputs from Vaishali Bansal (FAO). Yoshito Kawakatsu and Robert Johnston (UNICEF) conducted the survey analysis for the calculation of the malnutrition indicators in Section 4.2.
Support for report production came from Andrew Park (consulting editor) and Daniela Verona in the FAO Economic and Social Development stream.
The FAO Meeting Branch and Language Branch of the Governing Bodies Servicing Division carried out the translations, in addition to the contributors mentioned above. The translations of the report benefited from a technical review by Ahmad Sadiddin and Firas Yassin (Arabic), Lan Li (Chinese), Olivier Lavagne d'Ortigue, Thibault Meilland and Aurelien Mellin (French), Evgeniya Koroleva (Russian), and Verónica Boero and Giovanni Carrasco Azzini (Spanish), all of whom are from FAO.
The FAO Publications and Library Branch of the Office of Communications provided editorial support, design and layout, as well as production coordination, for editions in all six official languages.
