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Budget-2021: 10 suggestions for the agriculture sector January 28, 2021, 4:38 PM IST Dr Arabinda Kumar Padhee is Director, Country Relations and Business Affairs - New Delhi, ICRISAT. He has a Master’s degree in Agricultural Science from BHU and a PhD from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He also holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from University of Birmingham, UK. LESS... MORE All eyes are already set for the announcements to be...

Jan 28, 2021 Globally, almost 2-billion people do not have access to enough safe, nutritious food, and 690-million suffer from hunger. With 10 years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to fundamentally change the way food is produced and consumed. This includes changing the practices of more than 500-million smallholder farmers and the consumption patterns of 7,7-billion individuals. To support this, the World Economic Forum, the Government of Netherlands and several public an...

Food Innovation Hubs Put Farmers at Head of the Table for Systems Change Amanda Russo, Public Engagement, World Economic Forum, [email protected] - Innovation is critical to bring about a fundamental shift in the way our food is produced and consumed - The World Economic Forum, the government of Netherlands and several public and private sector partners are launching Food Innovations Hub to help transform the food ecosystem - More than 20 organizations are leading the initiative with work alre...

Date Time Transforming agri-food systems will shape future, FAO chief told World Economic Forum 27 January 2021, Rome – The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, called today for coordinated joint responses and “global synergistic action before it is too late” to transform the world’s agri-food systems. Holistic changes are needed to address issues such as climate change, agricultural production, demographics, consumer demands,...

27. 1. 2021 Minister Jože Podgoršek today attended the 13th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference at the Global Forum For Food And Agriculture (GFFA). The GFFA, which began on Monday and concluded with today’s ministerial conference, features a series of political and professional events, discussions and meetings that take place every year on the fringes of the Green Week fair. The ministerial conference welcomed almost 100 agriculture ministers and their deputies from around the world...

Director-General contributes to the Davos Agenda with call for solidarity, action, and inclusive innovation 27 January 2021, Rome - The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, QU Dongyu, called today for coordinated joint responses and "global synergistic action before it is too late" to transform the worlds agri-food systems. Holistic changes are needed to address issues such as climate change, agricultural production, demographics, consumer deman...

Reaching the most vulnerable with fortified foods - consolidating gains in salt iodization, edible oil and biofortified crops Share on Webinar 1 of the Second Global Summit on Food Fortification Series - #FutureFortified At least 340 million children under 5 (one in two) suffer from hidden hunger, known as micronutrient malnutrition. Large scale food fortification (LSFF) is the addition of vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin A, vitamin D, iron, zinc, and folic acid, to staple foods like whea...

CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger From Share this to : The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid the pandemic recovery, the climate crisis and the threat of instability. “This partnership will help us carry on saving lives and changing lives so more people have the opportunity to prosper and be self-sufficient.” The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, CGIAR, ha...

Restart 2021: Rising to the challenges of the environmental agenda Photo by Jan Kronies / Unsplash / 26 Jan 2021 Statement prepared for delivery at the 153 rd meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives Ambassador Coimbra, Excellencies, colleagues I am honoured on behalf of UNEP, to address you at the first meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives in 2021. It is indeed not the start to the year we had hoped for and we still have some way to journey as we seek to end the ...

Global agricultural research network CGIAR joins forces with World Food Programme to tackle post-pandemic hunger Format 26 Jan 2021 The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid the pandemic recovery, the climate crisis and the threat of instability. January 26, Montpellier, FRANCE -- The worlds largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, CGIAR, has united effort with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help tackle hunger and malnutrition ...