COVID-19 has set back progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), undermining decades of development efforts, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture...
Nurturing a New Generation of Food Leaders
NAIROBI, KENYA, Sep 22 (IPS) – Food security experts have raised an alarm that with as many as 811 million people the world over...
The UN Food Systems Summit – Food Processing, Consumption, Supply Chain, Loss and Waste
LETHBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 22 (IPS) – Food processing extends shelf-life and can transforms raw food into attractive, marketable products. It can also prevent contamination....
BRICS Puts on Annual Show of Unity
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 22 (IPS) – Amid scepticism and a lack of public interest, domestic crises and the backdrop of Covid-19, last week...
The UN needs to usher in and lead a new “era of global community”, and the Republic of Korea will do all it can...
China is set to provide more COVID-19 vaccines to the world and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly...
In his speech to the high-level General Debate at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi called for an end...
Despite the heavy impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Somalia has continued on the path to economic reform, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed said in a...
Philippines President urges world to ‘reverse course’ on inequality
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines urged on Tuesday all United Nations Member States to reverse course on inequality, saying the issue will define humanity’s future. Read the...
NEW YORK, Sep 22 (IPS) – When the UN Charter was being drafted in the closing days of the Second World War in 1945,...
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