Youth movement leads the charge worldwide for food systems transformation ahead of UN summit
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.
Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19
Experts say the pandemic will unleash a food security [...]
Cereal prices remain stable, dairy and sugar values dip – UN
Global food prices have remained largely unchanged since December 2017, [...]
UN agencies call for funds to reverse food ration cuts for refugees in Rwanda
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.
Conflicts, drought drive hunger despite strong global food supply – UN agriculture agency
Despite strong global food supply, localized drought, flooding and protracted conflicts have intensified and perpetuated food insecurity, the United Nations agriculture agency reported Thursday.
Unhealthy diets could undo progress on food security in Asia-Pacific, warns UN report
Urgent action is needed to tackle malnutrition and promote consumption of healthier foods in the Asia-Pacific region – home to most of the world’s undernourished people – the United Nations food security agency said Friday.
Global food import bill rising despite robust output in 2017 – UN
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.
Cities and local policies key to overcome hunger, stresses head of UN agency
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.
Rural areas have potential to feed and employ ‘younger, more crowded planet’ – UN report
"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 fall in August as cereal output heads for record high – UN
Global food prices dipped in August, mainly as the prospect [...]
UN agriculture chief says Uganda ‘leading example’ of sustainable refugee response
The head of the United Nations agriculture agency today called [...]
Emigration and food insecurity in Central American ‘dry corridor’ focus of new UN-backed study
A new inter-agency study released today found a correlation between [...]
Emergency food distributions launched to assist thousands displaced by conflict in DR Congo – UN agency
Food assistance will be provided to food insecure people displaced [...]
Amid soaring food insecurity in DR Congo, UN agencies call for food aid, supplies
More than one in ten people living in rural areas [...]
Food prices surge in July; UN agriculture agency cites cereals, sugar and dairy as main drivers
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.
Breastfeeding is ‘smartest investment’ families, communities and countries can make – UN
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.
Safe, effective family planning is key to ’empowering people, developing nations’ – UN
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.
Low food prices foreseen in 2017-2026, but countries need to keep markets stable – UN-OECD report
Noting projections of low prices for food commodities over the next decade on the back of abundant stocks of cereal and other staples, the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report have underlined the need for governments continue efforts to provide stability to world food markets.
Monthly global food price index up 1.4 per cent; cereal stocks set to hit new record, says UN agency
Rising prices of cereals, meat and dairy products have pushed the global food price index up by 1.4 per cent compared to last month and 7.0 per cent compared to last year, the United Nations agriculture agency has said.
PGA on “Be the Change for SDGs Week”
The President of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Peter Thomson, joined staff on a tour of the United Nations Food Gardens this week to learn more about urban agriculture and locally-sourced food. The event, organized as part of the “Be the Change for SDGs Week”, showcased the composting efforts and healthy food growing taking place on the grounds of the Secretariat Building. It also touched on the need to raise awareness about food security.