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Dramatic changes such as climate change, disease outbreaks and food shortages are occurring and we must hope that it is not yet too late to address them.

Agroforestry system combines land conservation with livestock operation

Minister of Municipality and Environment and Acting Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs HE Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie noted that several initiatives...

Q&A: Why the World ‘Can’t Afford to Wait’ for Transparent, Equitable Food Systems

Without increasing resilience through integrated agricultural markets for cost-effective and nutritious foods, the continent’s food value chains continue to be broken.

. Says only 3 out of 10 children are exclusively breastfeed in Nigeria  UNICEF, and the World Health Organization, WHO has expressed concern over the activities of baby food producers who allegedly use covid-19 as a cover to discourage exclusive breastfeeding to increase patronage of their products. Both agencies noted with...The Advocate

Gilbert Ekugbe takes a cursory look at how scientific innovation and digital technologies can put an end to hunger in Africa and the rest of the world There is no gain saying that Nigeria and many African countries face acute food insecurity as over 98 million out of the 155 million people pushed into acute food insecurity in 2020 were Africans according to Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) report. At least, every 2 out of 3 people facing acute food insecurity are on the African contin...

Breastfeeding central to eliminating child malnutrition: Agency chiefs Breastfeeding central to eliminating child malnutrition: Agency chiefs Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), issued the reminder in a joint statement for World Breastfeeding Week, which runs through 7 August.  A central role  They recalled that Governments, donors, civil society and the private sector,...

GOAL appeals to Kildare people to join #Connected2 campaign Friday, July 30, 2021 A GOAL food distribution centre in a community in Eastern Zimbabwe affected by food shortages brought about by climate change GOAL is encouraging people across Kildare to take part in its innovative new public campaign to motivate people to act to achieve a more equal, fairer and sustainable world. The #Connected2 Campaign aims to encourage better awareness and understanding of how people all over the globe ar...

UN Food Systems Pre-Summit closes with joint call to action 28 June 2021, Rome – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today told world leaders and other participants in the Pre-Summit to the UN Food Systems Summit that there was an acute need for renewed global efforts to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, as envisaged under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As he urged increased funding, Qu also called for greater eff...