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More global leadership in food and nutrition is sorely needed – the US can help lead the way Share on London, United Kingdom, 23 February 2021 -  By Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Chair of Action Track 1 of the United Nations Food Systems Summit Until every child in the world goes to bed nourished properly, we cannot rest. Our food systems are moving us in the wrong directions: hunger levels are rising, undernutrition levels are at se...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn World Food Prize laureates ask Biden to elevate hunger A group of 24 scientists, economists, researchers and other past winners of the World Food Prize sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to focus on alleviating global hunger, poverty and malnutrition By DAVID PITT Associated Press February 23, 2021, 7:02 PM • 3 min read The Associated Press FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2019 file photo, African Developm...

19/02/2021 Rome/Tokyo, 19 February 2021 – Japan is stepping up funding for FAO in three key areas, Vice-Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Makoto Osawa told Director-General QU Dongyu, as the two officials met virtually today. Osawa went on to list the strengthening of agricultural supply chains in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; the promotion of traditional healthy diets; and statistical capacity. Additional funding request...

WFP Republic of Congo Country Brief, January 2021 Format USD 85,510 cash transferred 53,855 people assisted In January 2021 Operational Updates • As a result of the worsening violence following the presidential elections in December 2020 in the Central African Republic (CAR), there has been an influx of new refugees coming through the northern border in the Likouala department. WFP and UNHCR have been monitoring the situation and are providing assistance to the refugees. • In anticipation o...

UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 1 - Public Forum Share on The ambition of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit is to launch a collective journey of transforming our food systems to give us the best possible chance of delivering on the 2030 agenda. Everyone has a role to play in this. Only by coming together and challenging one another we can spark new ideas and create meaningful impact.    Action Track 1 (AT1) strives to identify game-changing ideas to transform food systems and achieve the go...

The WEF Agenda Behind Modi Farm Reform Published: February 17, 2021 In September 2021 the UN will hold a Food Systems Summit. The aim will be to reshape world agriculture and food production in the context of the Malthusian UN Agenda 2030 “sustainable agriculture” goals. The recent radical farm laws from the government of Narenda Modi in India are part of the same global agenda, and it’s all not good. In Modi’s India, farmers have been in massive protest since three new farm laws were r...

18/02/2021 18 February 2021, Rome –  The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today met virtually the Group of Arab Ambassadors in Rome where he had the opportunity to talk about the FAO’s reform and reorganization, its work and the importance of transforming agri-food systems in the Arab world. In his opening remarks, the Director-General stressed that the continued structural reforms are making FAO more dynamic, results-orient...

SAN JOSE — Chair of the Scientific Group for the UN Food Systems Summit, Joachim von Braun,...

Support OneGreenPlanet Being publicly-funded gives us a greater chance to continue providing you with high quality content. Please support us! Support Us A new report says the global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. It calls for a global shift toward plant-based eating to stop the damage. The report, issued by the Chatham House think tank in London, notes that biodiversity loss is accelerating at an alarming pace. “The global rate of species extinction today is or...

The Government of Nigeria and the United Nations system have reiterated their commitment to ensuring substantial and positive changes in Nigeria’s food systems. “Nigeria is working