IMF, World Bank, WFP and WTO urge coordinated action on food security
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN World Food Programme and World Trade Organization have called for urgent, coordinated action ...
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Export controls could worsen food crisis: WTO
Governments are risking a repeat of mistakes in previous food crises by imposing export controls amid spiralling commodity and energy ...
UN shrinks Yemen rations in desperate measures
The World Food Programme (WFP) will reduce food rations for 8 million people in Yemen from January, according to Reuters. ...
Donors back $280 million for Afghan food
Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and ...
World Bank backs aid to Afghanistan
Reuters reports that the World Bank's board has backed transferring $280 million from a frozen trust fund to two aid ...
Jeffrey Sachs to UN: food system based on extreme irresponsibility
The world food system is based on large multinational companies, private profits, and a very low measure of international transfers ...
Ecosystem collapse could wipe trillions from global GDP
$2.7 trillion could be wiped from global gross domestic product if ecosystems continue to collapse, according to the World Bank, ...
Guterres: Food Systems Summit must address record acute hunger
Acute hunger is at a five-year high, affecting at least 155 million people in 55 countries - 20 million more ...
Human, animal and wildlife germ surveillance should be integrated
Authors of a World Bank blog have highlighted the importance of cooperation across human, veterinary and wildlife health services to ...
New World Bank bond to combat food waste
The World Bank yesterday issued a 10-year US$25 million Sustainable Development Bond, underwritten solely by HSBC Bank. Due September 2030, ...
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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