UN: food systems urgently need to be transformed
In her role as WFP deputy chief, Valerie Guarnieri leads programme and policy developments towards ending hunger, including efforts to ...
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Eco threats will displace 1 billion people by 2050
Rapid population growth, lack of access to food and water and increased exposure to natural disasters mean more than 1 ...
More than half the world’s GDP depends on healthy biodiversity
World leaders will be pressed in a few weeks on measures reducing the risk of zoonotic pandemics, such as Covid-19, ...
United Nations launches appeal for Lebanon
Food security is a key priority in the new US$565 million appeal launched by the United Nations and humanitarian partners ...
Five ways to reboot the global food economy
Covid-19 has shown how damaging ill-health can be for the economy. But it has also shown how measures that benefit ...
At 75, does the United Nations still work?
Seventy-five years after the foundation of the United Nations, the Economist's Anne McElvoy and Daniel Franklin ask Secretary-General Guterres whether ...
Agency and sustainability must drive food policy: UN
Food systems policy must now champion agency and sustainability, according to United Nations research launched today. This evolution in food ...
UN and WHO: destroying nature causes pandemics
Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and ...
Footballer Rashford condemns child hunger in the UK
British football star Marcus Rashford has succeeded in his campaign to protect food vouchers for the UK's poorest children. The ...
Danone’s Emmanuel Faber gives himself a 30% pay cut
This month's Danone annual general meeting will ratify substantial self-imposed pay cuts for the food giant's CEO and Chairman Emmanuel ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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