Equitable global access to vaccines must be at the core of efforts to build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta...
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President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday said his country was the victim of a “fierce campaign” of permanent and systematic aggression through economic and financial...
Climate Finance Can Transform Food Systems
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sep 22 (IPS) – September 23, 2021 is the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit, convened to mobilize the highest-priority transformations needed...
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...
There has been little sign of improvement in the diets of the world’s youngest children over the last ten years, the United Nations Children’s...
Afghanistan’s health system is on the brink of collapse, the head of the World Health Organisation, WHO, warned on Wednesday. Read the full story, “Afghanistan’s health care...
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...
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...
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