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...
DNA offers a new look at how Polynesia was settled
Polynesian voyagers settled islands across a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean within about 500 years, leaving a genetic trail of the routes that...
Whirling maple seeds inspired these tiny flying sensors
Like helicoptering maple seeds, tiny new fliers whirl gracefully as they glide. The miniature aircraft, which can be made as small as a grain...
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...
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...
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...
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