Global food systems ‘broken’, says UN chief, urging ... - UN News
WEBJul 24, 2023 · UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday highlighted the need to address global hunger, promote cooperation between businesses and governments, and mitigate the damaging impact of...
Global food crisis putting millions of young lives at risk | UN News
WEBJan 12, 2023 · Five UN agencies on Thursday called for urgent action to protect millions of malnourished children in the 15 countries hardest hit by the unprecedented food and nutrition crisis.
With 783 million people going hungry, a fifth of all food ... - UN News
WEBMar 27, 2024 · One fifth of food is thrown away. The UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 highlights that latest data from 2022 shows 1.05 billion tonnes of food went to waste. Some 19 per...
WHO accelerates work on nutrition targets with new commitments
WEBDec 7, 2021 · At the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Tokyo on 7 – 8 December 2021, the World Health Organization has announced six new commitments to accelerate progress on the 2025 nutrition targets which have been pushed …
Food systems: seven priorities to end hunger and protect the planet
WEBAug 30, 2021 · Food supplies are disrupted by heatwaves, floods, droughts and wars. The number of people going hungry in 2020 was 15% higher than in 2019, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and armed conflicts 1....
Recognizing and tackling a global food crisis - World Bank Group
WEBJan 5, 2023 · The World Bank has scaled up its efforts to bolster food security, reduce risks, and strengthen food systems over the short and long term. Urgent action is needed across governments and multilateral partners to avert a severe and prolonged food crisis.
How climate change is accelerating the global food crisis
WEBJul 11, 2023 · Climate change threatens food production worldwide, contributing to food price inflation, with those in low-income and developing countries hardest hit. Extreme weather, fueled by climate change, causes short-term disruptions in crop growing and long-term changes in regional growing conditions.
The world wastes more than 1 billion meals every day as hundreds …
WEBMar 27, 2024 · More than 1 billion meals are wasted across the world each day while nearly 800 million people go hungry, a new United Nations report has found. The world wasted 1.05 billion metric tons of food...
Food Security | Rising Food Insecurity - World Bank Group
WEBJul 1, 2024 · The World Bank’s response to the food insecurity crisis, the solutions it’s working on, including financing food and fertilizer—and commodities and agricultural data.
The state of global food security - The World Economic Forum
WEBAug 30, 2022 · Today, war in one of the world’s six breadbasket regions and in the Black Sea, a critical supply and transit hub for wheat and fertilizers, is tilting global food security into a state of high risk.
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