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Reflections on UN Food Systems Summit progress to date Share on London, 3 May 2021 -  So, we are 13 weeks away from the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit, hosted by the Government of Italy in July.  How are things going?     First, some basics if you are new to this: UN Secretary General Guterres has called a Summit in September of all UN member states to address how to make food systems better able to tackling global hunger and malnutrition (static or on the rise prior to COVID and now rising fa...

A couple of drive-in and as many walk-in coronavirus testing centres will be opened in New Town, an official of the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) said. “The New Town authorities have offered space to set up a drive-in kiosk in front of Utility Building in Action Area II and another near the Akankha crossing. Both will be run by Apollo Day Care,” an official said. Apollo Day Care runs New Town’s lone drive-in Covid testing centre near the New Town fairground, opposite Marri...

#GhBudget: Set aside fund to finance epidemic preparedness – SEND Ghana to govt LISTEN MAR 11, 2021 SEND Ghana is calling on the government to set aside a fund in the budget to finance Ghana’s epidemic preparedness as it continues the fight against COVID-19. According to the civil society organisation, the fund will also help with the implementation of the National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS), as well as the Ghana Centre for Disease Control. SEND Ghana made the recommendatio...

The 2nd vaccination centre opened up in NKDA. Kolkata news: 2nd vaccination centre opened in NKDA&nbsp The 2nd vaccination centre for the senior citizens at NKDA opened up on Wednesday. As per a report in The Times of India, the authorities also held a meeting with officials regarding the walk-in vaccination for elderly people. This is the second vaccination centre which has been opened in the new town. NKDAs first vaccination drive had kicked off in the last week of January.�...

The future of inspections under FDA’s COVID-19 PREPP initiative (MRI). On January 13, FDA published a summary report on the agency’s Pandemic Recovery and Preparedness Plan (PREPP) initiative, which was launched internally in April 2020 and announced publicly in August 2020. According to the summary report, the PREPP initiative is aimed at strengthening FDA’s ongoing COVID-19 response and building the agency’s resilience to respond to future emergencies, including by identifying severa...

Kolkata: The frequency of biomass-burning in New Town seems to have reduced in the past few days. Last week, New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA), along with local resistance groups and forest department’s wildlife wing officials, had intensified vigil and awareness drives to prevent the nuisance. NKDA officials said that till last week they were receiving five to six cases a day, which has now come down to one or two. “We are sending a water tanker to the spots before the fire ca...

A huge word thats so intangible you cannot really. overnight change the whole economic system so what weve done is within our own value chain we have identified four action areas that we continuously want to improve on a social and environmental aspect those four areas being mining design manufacturing and lifecycle for example in mining and the first priority in there is how to come up with alternatives for the current. infamous conflict minerals being seen. thomson and gold from. the surroundi...