Global food crisis: Let’s move from ‘despair to hope and action’, urges UN chief
14 October - In the face of the growing hunger [...]
14 October - In the face of the growing hunger [...]
NEW YORK, 11 August – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and [...]
DREAMWORKS TROLLS AND THE UN LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR HEALTHIER EATING [...]
MEDIA ADVISORY: UN Food Systems Summit Commitments Registry [...]
PETER RABBIT™ TEAMS UP WITH THE UNITED NATIONS, THE UN [...]
1 February 2021, ROME – A wave of self-organised youth-led groups across the world has joined the growing momentum behind the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit.
Global food prices have remained largely unchanged since December 2017, [...]
United Nations humanitarian agencies on Thursday called for more donor funding to reverse a 25 per cent reduction in food or cash assistance for more than 100,000 refugees in Rwanda.
Despite strong global food supply, localized drought, flooding and protracted conflicts have intensified and perpetuated food insecurity, the United Nations agriculture agency reported Thursday.
The cost of importing food is rising in 2017, driven by increased international demand for most food stuffs, as well as higher freight charges, the United Nations agriculture agency said Thursday.
Highlighting the potential of cities to address malnutrition, the head of the United Nations food security agency has called for innovative partnerships between urban centres and wide range of stakeholders to overcome the challenge of food waste and to ensure a healthy and nutritious diet for all.
"Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda depends crucially on progress in rural areas, which is where most of the poor and hungry live,” said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, in his foreword to the report.
Global food prices dipped in August, mainly as the prospect [...]
The head of the United Nations agriculture agency today called [...]
A new inter-agency study released today found a correlation between [...]
Food assistance will be provided to food insecure people displaced [...]
More than one in ten people living in rural areas [...]
Driven mainly by higher cereal, sugar and dairy quotations, global food prices rose for the third consecutive month in July, according to the United Nations agriculture agency.
Kicking off World Breastfeeding Week, the United Nations today stressed that although breastfeeding has cognitive and health benefits for infants and mothers, investment shortcomings impede the practice.
If the demand of women in developing countries who wanted access to safe and effective family planning was met, it would reduce an estimated 100,000 maternal death and avert 67 million unintended pregnancies, the United Nations population agency today said.