More: food security
Growing gap between ambition and action as the world prepares for a future with increasing climate risks
While climate consciousness across the globe is on the rise, the fourth UN Environment Adaptation Gap Report released today has revealed a considerable gap...
Hunger and obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean compounded by inequality
For the third consecutive year, the number of those chronically hungry has increased in Latin America and the Caribbean, while 250 million – 60...
Conflicts and extreme climate change threatens access to food in 39 countries
Unrelenting conflict and rapid climate change is continuing to reshape agriculture across the world, and contributing to major food shortages across 39 countries, which...
Kyrgyzstan advances forest monitoring in support of the Sustainable Development Goals
For the second time under the UNECE/FAO project “Accountability Systems for Sustainable Forest Management in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Kyrgyz stakeholders met to...
A bio-based, reuse economy can feed the world and save the planet
Transforming pineapple skins into product packaging or using potato peels for fuel may sound far-fetched, but such innovations are gaining traction as it becomes clear...
Report: Drought and conflict leave millions more hungry in 2017
Driven largely by climate disasters and conflict, levels of acute hunger surged in 2017, leaving some 124 million people across 51 countries facing hunger...
Data can help to end malnutrition across Africa
In 2000, the United Nations hosted the largest gathering of political leaders ever held. At that meeting, all 189 UN member states, plus leading...
Nearly two-thirds of the population in South Sudan at risk of rising hunger
More than 7 million people in South Sudan - almost two-thirds of the population - could become severely food insecure in the coming months...
Save the seeds – and the living plants we eat and use
The ‘Doomsday Vault', storing the seeds of vital crops in an underground vault near Svalbard, Norway, will celebrate its 10th anniversary soon, drawing deserved...
How Increased Carbon Dioxide Levels Are Detrimental To Food and Nutrition
The UN has announced record average levels of CO2. So states the annual flagship report released October 30 by its World Meteorological Organization. The average...