Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises

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 has found.
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Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises

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 has found.
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Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high warns Global Report on Food Crises

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 has found.
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FAO Council ends successfully and paves the way for the first virtual Conference in history

The 166th Session of the FAO Council ended today with its Members praising the Organization’s main actions and initiatives to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and to foster sustainable development, as well as supporting the proposed documents to guide the Organization’s work over the next years.
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FAO and WFP launch global consultation to help alleviate hunger and transform agri-food systems

The platform provides a space to hear from partners on concrete ways to accelerate the achievement of shared goals and common approaches towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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FAO and BADEA scale-up partnership in support of African countries

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) have formalized their partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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FAO Director-General calls at UN General Assembly for decisive action to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming an increasing threat to global health, food safety and security, potentially also leading to substantial socio-economic damage, and to turn this around, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today called for coherent, swift and decisive action.
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FAO Director-General calls at UN General Assembly for decisive action to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is becoming an increasing threat to global health, food safety and security, potentially also leading to substantial socio-economic damage, and to turn this around, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, today called for coherent, swift and decisive action.
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UN General Assembly to hold High-level Interactive Dialogue on Antimicrobial Resistance – a global health and development threat

The One Health approach recognises the strong links between humans, animals and the environment. AMR - one of the greatest global threats to animal, human and environmental health, livelihoods, food safety and global food security - occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and develop resistance to medicines. The impact is devastating.
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Collaborative Partnership on Forests calls for halt to deforestation

A group of 15 international organizations working on forestry today issued a joint statement
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Historic opportunities for global action to eradicate poverty, end hunger and reduce inequalities

Addressing the 166th Session of the FAO Council today, Director-General QU Dongyu highlighted the ways the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been providing constant support to Members, particularly to overcome the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Healthy forests are key to “building back better”

The first flagship publication “The Global Forest Goals Report 2021” produced by the UN Forum on Forests Secretariat of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs was launched.
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