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– Responding to an urgent call to increase financing for the world’s poorest farmers who are hardest hit by climate change, a group of Public

Ahead of global climate talks, public development banks join forces to boost investments in sustainable food systems 19 October 2021 ©IFAD/Marco Salustro Rome, 19 October 2021 – Responding to...

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The United Nations has said it sees ‘new momentum and energy’ around the transition to a sustainable food system. But campaigners warn that words need to be put into action.

Every year, October 16, is marked as World Food Day to mark the founding of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). Established in 1945, the main goal of this day is to promote the message that food is a fundamental human right.  However, this year, World Food Day finds us at a very crucial moment. While the world was already coping with the consequences of climate disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic posed another threat.

Cambodia on October 16 joined other countries to observe World Food Day (WFD), held globally this year under the theme “Our actions are our future. Better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life”.

This year’s World Food Day finds us at a critical moment. 

This year’s World Food Day finds us at a critical moment. The COVID-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship.

ROME, 15th October, 2021 (WAM) -- World Food Day 2021 celebrations began today, with a global event where participants noted that while the challenges of global hunger, climate crisis and COVID-19 remain formidable, there is also a new momentum and energy behind efforts to transform agri-food systems, making them more fit for purpose. A UN Food Systems Summit last month mapped out the broad outlines of how the world needs to move forward to reshape the structures under which our food is produce...

This year's World Food Day, which wraps up tomorrow, finds us at a critical moment. The Covid-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship. The impact of the climate crisis are all around us. Crops have gone up in flames. Homes have been washed away. Lives and livelihoods have been thrown into turmoil due to conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. Global food security challenges have not been this severe for years.