UN and partners seek $852.4m to support Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts Geneva, 13 March 2024 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with other humanitarian partners, today called on the international...
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Bangladesh + 1 more
UN and partners seek $852.4m to support Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi hosts Geneva, 13 March 2024 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with other humanitarian partners, today called on the international...
Hidden costs of global agrifood systems worth at least $10 trillion 154-country study makes case for true cost accounting to guide policy 06/11/2023 Rome - Our current agrifood systems impose huge...
Burkina Faso + 23 more
Executive summary The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 18 hunger...
Addressing methane emissions from livestock and rice systems is vital for promoting sustainable agriculture and mitigating climate change. This FAO report comprehensively addresses methane emissions...
KEY MESSAGES Global hunger, measured by the prevalence of undernourishment (Sustainable Development Goal [SDG] Indicator 2.1.1), remained relatively unchanged from 2021 to 2022 but is still far above...
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Increasing risk of hunger in hotspot areas as the Sudan crisis spills over into subregion and El Niño looms - warns new UN report Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mali and the Sudan have been elevated to the...
Urban greenery helps avert multiple crises for dryland cities, FAO report shows Trees offer a cost-effective and efficient tool to address the challenges of population growth 21/12/2022 Rome –...
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The Eastern Africa Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition held its general meeting 12 December 2022, Kigali – Fostering the ongoing fight against food insecurity and malnutrition,...
CONCEPT NOTE On 7-8 December 2022, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will convene the eleventh annual Global Humanitarian Policy Forum (GHPF). In the...
Rome - The world’s ability to nourish its burgeoning population is under threat and without broader socioeconomic and environmental change, sustainable agrifood systems will be impossible to achieve,...
Quadripartite launches new Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform to help tackle common threat to human and animal health and ecosystems 18/11/2022 Rome/Nairobi/Geneva /Paris...
Amid food and climate crises, investing in sustainable food cold chains crucial More than 3 billion people can’t afford a healthy diet Lack of effective refrigeration directly results in the loss of...
Flagship FAO report addresses concerns over job losses and inequality Rome - Agricultural automation, which includes anything from tractors to artificial intelligence, can play an important role in...
Executive summary The Quadripartite Organizations – the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Organisation for...
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Executive summary The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warn that acute food insecurity is likely to deteriorate further in 19 countries...
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OVERVIEW Sudan hosts one of the largest refugee populations in Africa, with 1.14 million refugees and asylum seekers as of 30 June 2022. The Government of Sudan continues to generously maintain an...
KEY MESSAGES Despite hopes that the world would emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and food security would begin to improve, world hunger rose further in 2021. The increase in global hunger in...
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KEY MESSAGES 1. Global fisheries and aquaculture production is at a record high and the sector will play an increasingly important role in providing food and nutrition in the future. Total fisheries...
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WFP and FAO are issuing an early warning alert for urgent humanitarian action in 20 hunger hotspots where hunger is expected to worsen from June to September 2022. According to the May 2022 Hunger...
State of the World’s Forests Report 2022 details three pathways we must follow to unlock their potential 02/05/2022 Seoul/Rome With the world facing multiple crises including, COVID-19, conflicts,...