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Agricultural development and food and nutrition security in any emerging global order

Brüntrup, Michael / Aiveen Donnelly
Staff - Other (2026)

in: Mark Furness / Niels Keijzer (eds.), International development cooperation and the emerging global order, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 35-38

ISBN: 978-3-96021-288-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23661/idp4.2026

Food and nutrition security (FNS) is under increasing strain. In both absolute and relative terms, major progress was made until the early 2010s, driven mainly by substantial improvements in China. After that period – paradoxically during the era of the Sustainable Development Goals – progress slowed, and during the COVID-19 crisis the indicators worsened across almost all dimensions and regions (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, & WHO, 2025). Climate-induced supply shocks, high food inflation, economic slowdown, and an increasing number and intensity of conflicts are the main drivers of this development. Depending on the specific context, one or more of the three fundamental pillars of FNS – food availability, access and ustilisation – are under pressure, while the fourth pillar, stability, which underpins the other three, is also increasingly at risk.

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