From the Field: Eating our way to a healthier planet
The UN Food Systems Summit demonstrated the huge imbalances in the way we grow, produce, and consume food. But, as the UN Development Programme...
Food Heroes: Ethiopian avocado farmer’s ‘transformational’ crop
An Ethiopian farmer has been talking about how avocados have transformed the lives of not just his family but also of people living in...
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Friday urged countries to step up reunification for Afghans whose families remain in the country or who are...
Although rural women and girls have an essential role in food systems, they still do not have equal power with men, therefore earn less, and experience higher levels...
Portuguese beaches lead the way during UN, EU clean-up campaign
In recent months, some 260 different clean-up operations have been undertaken across, aimed at protecting life under the sea, with the UN and European...
Tensions over vehicle licence plates and anti-smuggling operations, between authorities in Kosovo and Serbia, in recent weeks, may contribute to unravelling “steady but fragile progress made in rebuilding trust among communities” in...
The United Nations has condemned the deadly suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the largest Shia mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens...
Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year. He shares the prestigious award with Maria Ressa, another campaigning journalist from the Philippines. ...
Displaced families in Nigeria’s northeast are “knocking on the door of starvation”, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. Read the full story, “Displaced in...
Rising poverty a ‘moral indictment of our times’: Guterres
For the first time in two decades, extreme poverty is on the rise, the UN chief said in his message released on Friday, marking the International Day for the...
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