The President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, lauded the world’s embrace of online services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday, in her high-level...
President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday said his country was the victim of a “fierce campaign” of permanent and systematic aggression through economic and financial...
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...
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 Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 5 
Lavrov issues call for new Eurasian ‘security architecture’ 
Cuba warns against ‘law of the jungle’ as Foreign Minister denounces US pressure 
Saudi Arabia warns Gulf security inseparable from global stability amid regional tensions