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New and old challenges: Conflict, climate change and COVID-19 impacts on rising acute food insecurity Format The poorest continue bearing the burden of global challenges: How can we transform agri-food systems so that no one is left behind? Statement of the Global Network against Food Crises on the release of the Global Report on Food Crises 2021 One year after COVID-19 spread across the world, the 2021 edition of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) confirms dire projections. The pandemic a...

Tackling climate challenge through food and agricultural innovation Ryan Hobert, opinion contributor © Thinkstock Tackling climate challenge through food and agricultural innovation Buried among the flurry of announcements made at the Leaders Summit on Climate was a new initiative to address a substantial driver of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions: food systems. One-third of global emissions come from the production, distribution and consumption of food around the world,...

Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises WFP/Marco Frattini, Child eating PlumpySup to treat moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). ROME - The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non...

WFP/Marco Frattini, Child eating PlumpySup to treat moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). ROME - The number of people facing acute food insecurity and...

Four months before the United Nations holds the Global Food Systems Summit, youth advocates met virtually this week and under the ‘Good Food for All’ banner, presented their ideas for transforming food production and consumption

UN Nutrition launches report on the essential role of aquatic foods in sustainable healthy diets for all UN inter-agency body highlights diverse aquatic foods as game-changing solutions in responding to the global call to action for a sustainable, resilient transformation of global food systems.  5 May 2021, ROME – UN Nutrition’s first discussion paper on aquatic foods—with contributions from WorldFish and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)—aims to infor...

Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) sealed a memorandum of understanding for future collaboration to promote agricultural infrastructure development and skills training for women and youth. The agreement will also advance climate-smart agriculture in Africa. FAO Director-General, Qu Dongyu and BADEA Director-General Sidi Ould Tah signed the agreement on 29 April in a virtual ceremony during a high-level dialogue organized by the ...

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Conflict, economic shocks – including due to COVID-19, extreme weather – pushed at least 155 million people into acute food insecurity in 2020 Conflict, or economic shocks that are often related to COVID-19 along with extreme weather, are continuing to push millions of people into acute hunger. Brussels/Rome (FAO)* – The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises,...

Burkina Faso: Participants in a WFP soil rehabilitation project in Sirighin in March — 2.9 million people will face hunger during the upcoming lean season according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé figures. Photo: WFP/Evelyn Fey At least 155 million people in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2020 — 20 million more than 2019, according to figures from the 2021 Global Report on Food Crises, released today. Published by the Global Network Against Food Crises — an alliance of government age...