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CFS Members endorse new Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition Format The guidelines will support countries in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition 11 February 2021, Rome - Members of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) endorsed the first-ever Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition aiming to support countries and others in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition by utilizing a comprehensive food systems approach. ...

The guidelines will support countries in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition 11 February 2021, Rome - Members of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) endorsed the first-ever Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition aiming to support countries and others in their efforts to eradicate all forms of hunger and malnutrition by utilizing a comprehensive food systems approach. The endorsement took place during the CFS 47th Session (8-11 February 2021). The V...

8 February 2020, Rome – The 47 th Session of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has kicked off today with a call to step up joint action towards a comprehensive transformation of global agri-food systems, in order to make them more inclusive, resilient and sustainable, as well as to tap their potential to contribute to the fight against poverty, hunger , all forms of malnutrition, and inequality. According to the FAO latest estimates, hunger is on the rise with nearly 690 million b...

How to produce offshore energy without harming the oceans Offshore wind capacity will need to be increased across the world to meet international climate commitments, but with as little harm as possible to wildlife. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Turbines of a wind farm lay in the wake of a maintenance boat in the mouth of the River Mersey. “No landscape on Earth is safe” if the fight against climate change “trumps all other environmental concerns,” wrote the US ...

Ramaphosa must provide us with the names of government spies in Right2Know Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by On Tuesday, 02 February 2021, the Right2Know Campaign wrote a letter to President Cyril Rama...

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:59 UTC Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised social, environmental and health costs. Reliance on commodity monocropping for global markets, lon...

Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised […]

India calls for introspection within UN Security Council over lack of representation of African nations India has a history of ties with Africa (MINT_PRINT) Share Via Read Full Story NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday called for introspection within the UN Security Council over the lack of representation of African countries among its permanent members at a time when more than half of the issues on the agenda of the UN’s powerful decision making body related to the continent. Speaking at the UN S...

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am In the face of rising cases of Covid-19 across the United States, many are hoping that the approval of a novel coronavirus vaccine, or vaccines, in 2021 may offer a way to move beyond the worst effects of the pandemic. Yet recent polls indicate that despite confidence-building measures by government officials, pharmaceutical companies, and social media platforms, public trust in a vaccine remains in doubt. Please join the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Pa...

THE STANDARD By Irene Ovonji-Odida | December 11th 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 For African countries, the impact of changes in US administrations are not always self-evident.  However, as with other developing countries, there are prospects of Africa benefitting from renewed multilateralism, not only in climate and health issues such as responding to global pandemics, but also on the question of illicit financial flows through the reopened debate on fairer taxation of big business and the ri...