The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, has appointed Jong-Jin Kim as Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific, effective 1 July 2020.  Mr Kim, a national of the Republic of Korea, has a long and distinguished career […]

Guest Post July 2, 2020 Prepare food systems for a long-haul fight against COVID-19 Maximo Torero Policy recommendations to avert a global food crisis.

Countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Greece, Honduras, Iraq, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, World Source: Médecins Sans Frontières Decisions at every level of the response to COVID-19 are resulting in women being further cut off from sexual and reproductive health services, threatening sharp rises in maternal and neonatal mortality.

If Beijing thought a new national security law would guarantee a quiet birthday for Hong Kong, it was mistaken.

An argument commonly cited in favor of burning coal to generate electricity has it that it is a cheap and effective way of doing so. Yet that no longer holds true. A third of the planet’s coal plants are already costlier to operate than it is to build new renewable […]