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...
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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...
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...
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...
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights 
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