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UN backs plans to ensure regular, healthy school meals for every child in need by 2030
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Fabrizia

UN backs plans to ensure regular, healthy school meals for every child in need by 2030

Following pandemic-driven school closures, five UN agencies threw their strong support behind an international coalition to improve the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world. In a joint declaration on Tuesday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN

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19 de noviembre de 2021
COVID-19 imperils ‘historic advances’ in children’s access to school meals- UN report
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Fabrizia

COVID-19 imperils ‘historic advances’ in children’s access to school meals: UN report

According to WFP’s report, State of School Feeding Worldwide, 370 million children in 199 countries and territories were suddenly deprived of school meals, when schools closed due to the pandemic. That meal was for many their only nutritious food of the day. David Beasley, WFP Executive Director, highlighted the importance of what’s been lost:

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26 de febrero de 2021
FAO launches the UN’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021
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Fabrizia

FAO launches the UN’s International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today [15 December 2020] launched the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 (IYFV) with an appeal to improve healthy and sustainable food production through innovation and technology and to reduce food loss and waste. Proclaimed at

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16 de diciembre de 2020
Caritas Zambia urges the Zambian Government to patent local foods
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Fabrizia

Caritas Zambia urges the Zambian Government to patent local foods

Caritas Zambia has appealed to the government to patent local Zambian foods and help local farmers and other food producers retain power over their local food systems. Speaking Friday, this week, when he made a presentation at the Second National Food and Seed Festival in Lusaka, Caritas Zambia Executive Director, Eugene Kabilika

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26 de octubre de 2020
Food loss and waste ‘an ethical outrage’, UN chief says on International Day
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Fabrizia

Food loss and waste ‘an ethical outrage’, UN chief says on International Day

Last year, the UN General Assembly designated 29 September as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste Reduction, recognizing the fundamental role that sustainable food production plays in promoting food security and nutrition and highlighting the essential need to reduce food loss and waste. In addition, with the COVID-19 pandemic underlining

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29 de septiembre de 2020
Nearly half a billion people in Asia undernourished- UN
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Fabrizia

Nearly half a billion people in Asia undernourished: UN

Three million people in the Asia Pacific region must be lifted out of hunger each month, over the next decade if the region is to meet Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG) of zero hunger by end 2030, says a new UN report. While “substantial advances” have been made in the region

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17 de diciembre de 2019
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Julia

Why we need to rethink how we produce food

Feeding today’s world produces a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. With the accelerating pace in which people are moving from countryside to the city, changes in land use and the agriculture industry could amount to 70 per cent of total emissions by 2050, according to projections by the World Bank.

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2 de octubre de 2018
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Fabrizia

FAO: Hunger increases in the world for the third consecutive year

For the third consecutive year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced an increase in the number of people suffering from hunger. In the case of Latin America and the Caribbean, 39,3 million people live undernourished in the region, an increase of 400 000 people since 2016. According

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13 de septiembre de 2018
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