Useful links

  • AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center: Provides a collection of useful recipes for lesser known agrobiodiversity species
  • Eat the weeds: Search this website for collection, storage and cooking information on 1,000 wild edible plant species
  • Incredible Edible Todmorden: IET is a community of people working together in the UK to provide access to good local food for all, through learning (from field to classroom to kitchen) to supporting local businesses. Watch them present their work in a TED talk.
  • Sweet Potato Knowledge Portal: The Portal provides easy access to all the technical and scientific knowledge on sweetpotato in the world.
  • Wild edible plants: The initiative promotes dietary diversity among poor communities in Lebanon using of wild edible plant species. Access the plant and recipes database for more information on Mediterranean edible plants
  • Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition: A network of 41 countries which have established important voluntary partnerships to raise awareness of national needs, advocate for increased political commitment, build capacity to support programmes and policies, encourage monitoring and participation of food security activities, and coordinate direct assistance activities for alleviating hunger
  • AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center: The centre promotes the increased production and consumption of nutritious and health-promoting vegetables
  • CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health: The Program supports agricultural researchers, value chain actors, program implementers, and policymakers in reshaping their actions to better contribute to nutrition and health outcomes and impacts. It also aims to develop better synergies between agriculture and the nutrition and health sectors to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of agricultural actions on human nutrition and health.
  • Committee on World Food Security (CFS): The CFS is an international and intergovernmental body that serves as a forum for review and follow up of food security policies.
  • Crops for the Future: This global partnership organization promotes and facilitates the greater use of neglected and underutilised crops (NUS).
  • Farming First Guide to Food and Nutrition Security Initiatives: The guide offers the first comprehensive analysis of food and nutrition security initiatives, effectively filling an information gap as the only location where all such information is accessible in one place. The re-launched guide also includes many new initiatives focused on tackling the devastating effects of malnutrition that affects billions worldwide.
  • Food Security and Nutrition Network: The FSN Network is an open community of practice of food security and nutrition implementers, designed to encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration across organizations for improved, high-quality and effective food security interventions.
  • Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN): GAIN supports public-private partnerships to increase access to the missing nutrients in diets necessary for people, communities and economies to be stronger and healthier.
  • Indigenous Nutrition.org: Linked to work carried out by the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, this series of videos describes traditional knowledge collected from 12 indigenous communities in 9 countries.
  • The Right to Food: Sitting under FAO's Economic and Social Development Department, the Right to Food Portal provides an information and a knowledge platform, as well as training materials to assist stakeholders in implementing the right to food at national level.
  • Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN): The SUN Movement is focused on implementing evidence-based nutrition interventions and integrating nutrition goals across sectors – including health, social protection, poverty alleviation, national development and agriculture.
  • Secure Nutrition: This platform offers a space to exchange experiences and to disseminate and gather information on agriculture, food security, and nutrition.
  • United Nations Standing Commission on Nutrition (UNSCN): Promotes cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and international efforts to end malnutrition in all of its forms in this generation.

The following websites, listed in alphabetical order, provide free or low cost access to scientific journals and research papers in the fields of food, nutrition, agriculture and environmental sciences.

  • Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA): Provides developing countries with access to more than 3000 journals in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences
  • Agriculture & Food Security: Peer-reviewed open access journal that addresses the challenge of global food security, with a particular focus on sustainable agriculture research and food systems that better address local, regional, national and/or global food and nutritional insecurity
  • Bentham OPEN: Provides access to more than 230 peer-reviewed, free-to-view online journals covering all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences
  • BioMed Central: Provides access to 243 peer-reviewed open access journals in the fields of nutrition and nutrition-related non-communicable diseases
  • CGIAR Library: Open access repository of official documents, publications and communication materials produced by CGIAR
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Provides access to 4081 journals searchable at article level
  • Electronic Journals Library: Provides access to 36662 journals that can be read free-of-charge
  • Food and Nutrition Research: International peer-reviewed Open Access journal providing access to latest research on human nutrition and food-related nutrition
  • Food Science & Nutrition: Peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on research in all areas of food science and nutrition
  • Harvest Choice Initiative: Focusing on Africa, the website provides access to maps, datasets, working papers, presentations, spatial and economic models on poverty, markets, soil, climate change, production systems and land management practices
  • IFPRI E-brary: Open access publications repository of the International Food and Policy Research Institute
  • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity: IJBNPA is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal devoted to furthering the understanding of the behavioral aspects of diet and physical activity
  • Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism: Peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of nutrition and metabolism
  • Journal of Nutritional Science: JNS provides access to high-quality research articles covering all aspects of nutrition
  • Nutrition & Diabetes: Peer-reviewed, online, open access journal bringing to the fore outstanding research in the areas of nutrition and chronic disease, including diabetes
  • PLOS One: Interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research
  • Scientific Commons: Provides access to over 38 million scientific publications
AgencyGrantInformationGrant Size
Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationNutrition related research projectsThe foundation supports the following strategies: Understanding poor nutrition and how to treat it; Accelerate the development and production of fortified foods and provide access to them; Promote breastfeeding and provide access to complementary foods; Reduce low birth weight; Develop crops with higher nutrient levels; Advocate for comprehensive global and country-led nutrition solutions
New Field FoundationInternational Fund to Amplify Agro-Ecological SolutionsSupports and encourages local farming practices and aims to sustain viable food systems, promote the economic well-being of small farmers and their communities, and address climate change. The fund links organizations and movements in South America, Asia, and Africa to advance agro-ecological solutions locally and regionallyMax USD$300,000
Nutricia Research Foundation Nutrition related research projects The Nutricia research foundation is an independent charity. The project grants are available for a maximum of two years and a progress report must be submitted prior to the end of the first fiscal year (November 1st) Max €25,000
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Hunger and Food Security Strategy: Climate Resilience, Nutrition, and Policy The focus of this grant is on Climate change resilience, nutrition, and policy objectives under the research strategies. The grant welcomes applications in the following specific program areas: High-Yielding, Climate-Resilient Legumes, High-Yielding, Climate-Resilient Cereals, Increased Livestock Productivity through Climate Resilience and Disease Resistance, Small-Scale Irrigation Technologies and Agricultural Water Management Practices, Reduced Post-Harvest Losses and Food Waste, Food Security Policy
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) / National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative: Food SafetyThe NIFA program supports single-function research projects and multi-function integrated research, education and/or extension projects, and food and agricultural science enhancement (FASE) grants. Online application form available here