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UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the UNFSS underscores the role of LATAM and the Caribbean at the global event Agnes Kalibata, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the 2021 Food Systems Summit; and Manuel Otero, Director General of IICA. Invited by IICA Director General, Agnes Kalibata—former Minister of Agriculture of Rwanda, now leading the UNFSS —spoke with media editors from 10 countries. SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, March 4, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Agnes Kalibata, th...

The average household bins around 163 lbs (74 kg) of leftovers every year, the United Nations Food Waste Index Report 2021 has warned. This contributes to the 931 million tonnes of food waste the world generates annually — equivalent to 17 per cent of all the food available to consumers in 2019. The report was produced by the UN Environment Programme in tandem with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a British charity. It is part of the so-called UN Sustainable Development Goal ...

04 Mar 2021 Sarah Shakour Project Specialist, Forum Foundations, World Economic Forum As we commemorate International Women’s Month and Women’s Day on 8 March, we celebrate the women who choose to take on incredible challenges. Here are six inspirational young female leaders who influence me and others around the world. International Women’s Month is dedicated to the social, economic, political, cultural and scientific achievements of women and girls. In my work with the World...

Waste not, want not Market food waste (Image by licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) The Food Waste Index Report 2021 looks at food waste that occurs in retail outlets, restaurants and homes. A staggering 931 million tonnes of food – 17 percent of total food available to consumers in 2019 – went into the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food services,...

Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services  Study finds food waste is a global, not just developed world, problem Food Waste Index report helps countries track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030

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02/03/2021 Today, 2 March 2021, the FAO Director-General, Mr QU Dongyu, and Dr David Nabarro Strategic Director, 4SD, had a virtual meeting, to discuss FAO’s role in global efforts for Agri-Food Systems Transformation and the Organization’s support to the preparatory work for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021. The meeting discussed the ongoing Member States’ Dialogue that are organized by Dr Nabarro’s team with extensive support from FAO’s headquarter technical units, decentralized off...

Event description Dialogues on identifying the trade offs in meeting Irelands climate change commitments while developing its agri-food sector About this Event The Challenge Ireland has an export-oriented agriculture sector with extremely high standards of quality and safety, that is the envy of many countries in the world. We sell ourselves as being efficient producers of high-quality products, yet average family farm income was just under €24,000 in 2019 and the number of farms in ...

NZ, this is your Volkswagen moment Newsroom 27/02/2021 © Provided by Newsroom Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. We need to make radical strategy shifts in farming and food production, and we need to start now, says Rod Oram Volkswagen is a cautionary tale for our farmers. Like them, it believed it had the best low emissions technology in the world. Even better, continuous...

Friday, 26 February 2021, 5:19 pm PAN Asia Pacific today (PANAP) joined civil society and indigenous peoples’ organisations in formally requesting to meet with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Qu Dongyu to discuss widespread public concern with FAO’s announcement last November of plans to formalize a partnership with CropLife International — the global trade association of the world’s biggest agrochemical corporations. The 11 organizations that co-sponsor...