Insights and Stories on United Nations

Food, farming, forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

Apr. 6, 2022 at 1:53 am CDT

Reuters — Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel. But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, […]

U.N. to roll out global early-warning systems for extreme weather

Mar. 23, 2022 at 8:43 pm CDT

By Gloria Dickie

Ukraine war already impacting food security, U.N. agency warns

Mar. 18, 2022 at 2:09 am CDT

By Maytaal Angel

U.N. looks for recipe to tackle global food dysfunction

Sep. 23, 2021 at 8:05 pm CDT

By Michelle Nichols

Afghanistan ‘marching towards starvation,’ UN food chief says

Aug. 24, 2021 at 7:34 pm CDT

By Alexander Cornwell

Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade: U.N. climate report

Aug. 9, 2021 at 5:34 pm CDT

Reuters – Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a U.N. climate science report said on Monday. The report www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1 found that we are already […]

By Jake Spring

World Food Programme starts distributing food in Venezuela

Jul. 7, 2021 at 8:23 pm CDT

Reuters — The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday it had begun distributing school meals to children in Venezuela, where some seven million people require humanitarian assistance after years of economic collapse in the once-prosperous OPEC nation. The WFP’s first take-home rations were distributed for children under six years […]

By Reuters

U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

Mar. 11, 2021 at 3:12 pm CST

New York | Reuters — Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago U.N. food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen […]

By Michelle Nichols

Advisory council named to steer national Food Policy

Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:24 pm CST

Development of Canada’s Food Policy is taking a major step forward with the naming Friday of a new advisory council featuring industry, academic and government members tasked with guiding the policy. Public consultations on a “Food Policy for Canada” started in 2017, leading to the release of a 2018 report […]

By D.C. Fraser

Pulse weekly outlook: World Pulses Day celebrated

Feb. 16, 2021 at 7:41 pm CST

MarketsFarm — The United Nations celebrated the annual World Pulses Day on Feb. 10, highlighting the contribution of pulse crops to world agriculture and nutrition. “Pulses are more than just nutritious seeds – they also contribute to achieving the goals of the 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development,” the UN said […]

By MarketsFarm Team

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