Life on Earth as we have known it is hurtling towards death by a thousand cuts: large-scale deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, plastic pollution. Each crisis poses grave dangers, yet it is in combination that they pose a truly existential threat, leading scientists have warned. Overlapping environmental crises could reinforce […]

Jan 24, 2020 Press Release India Securing the Harvest: A Forum on Improved Grain Storage for Smallholder Agriculture Agriculture Production Food Safety According to the FAO, each year about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers. Postharvest losses not only […]

Source: CARE, Oxfam, Plan International, World Vision Country: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe Severe food insecurity rates across nine southern African countries are 140% higher now than in 2018, primarily because people facing weather extremes driven by climate change. Severe food insecurity rates across nine southern African countries are 140% higher […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have jointly expressed solidarity with China and offered support to the country as it battles the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak. In a joint letter to President […]

Saving butterflies can be a dangerous business. Raúl Hernández Romero, who worked as a guide at Mexico’s largest reserve for monarch butterflies in the state of Michoacán, was found dead last week. Romero had suffered “blunt blows on different parts of the body and a head injury, caused by a […]

Feb 19, 2020 – 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EST Policy Seminar Trade Resilience Environment and Natural Resources Climate Change Meeting the SDGs Globalization Greening of trade policies: The EU-Mercosur agreement The 2030 Agenda calls on all countries to use trade to create a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient world. […]