 | Zero Hunger: Our Actions Today Are Our Future Tomorrow José Graziano da Silva Just three years ago, in September 2015, all United Nations Member States approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The eradication of hunger and all forms of malnutrition (Sustainable Development Goal number 2) was defined by world leaders as a cardinal objective of the Agenda, a sine ...MORE > > |
 | True Cost of a Plate of Food Around the World Herve Verhoosel How much would you expect to pay for the most basic plate of food? The kind of thing you might whip up at home – nothing fancy, just enough to fill you up and meet a third of today’s calorie needs. A soup, maybe, or a simple stew – some beans or lentils, a handful of rice, bread, or corn? ... MORE > > |
 | Rural Migration: An Opportunity, Not A Challenge Tharanga Yakupitiyage While it can be a challenging issue, migration must be seen as an opportunity and be met with sound, coherent policies that neither stem nor promote the phenomenon. A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) examines rural migration and urges countries to ...MORE > > |
 | Women & Youth Key to Achieving Agenda 2030 in South-South Cooperation Siddharth Chatterjee By 2050 Africa will have 830 million young people. Many countries in the global south, India included are seeing a youth(men and women) bulge. To reap a demographic dividend countries in the global south need to share and exchange knowledge to leapfrog socio-economic transformation. When the ...MORE > > |
 | VIDEO: World Food Day - World Hunger is on the Rise Again IPS World Desk According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), over 820 million people are currently suffering from chronic undernourishment across the globe. The reasons for the surge are complex, but are attributed to increasing conflict, economic slowdowns and the rise in extreme ... MORE > > |
 | Latin America Backslides in Struggle to Reach Zero Hunger Goal Orlando Milesi For the third consecutive year, South America slid backwards in the global struggle to achieve zero hunger by 2030, with 39 million people living with hunger and five million children suffering from malnutrition. "It's very distressing because we're not making progress. We're not doing well, ... MORE > > |
 | Kenyan Women Turning the Tables on Traditional Banking and Land Ownership Miriam Gathigah It was less than eight months ago that Mary Auma and her three children, from Ahero in Kenya’s Nyanza region, were living in a one-room house in an informal settlement. Ahero is largely agricultural and each day Auma would go and purchase large quantities of milk and resell it – earning only a 10 ...MORE > > |
 | Latin American Rural Women Call for Recognition and Policies Mariela Jara Rural women in Latin America play a key role with respect to attaining goals such as sustainable development in the countryside, food security and the reduction of hunger in the region. But they remain invisible and vulnerable and require recognition and public policies to overcome this ... MORE > > |
 | Transforming Food Systems for Resilience in Africa & Asia Nathanial Matthews and Deon Nel Our food system requires fundamental transformation. Disasters and shocks, from extreme flooding to persistent drought, are occurring more frequently and lasting longer, threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of small farmers across the globe. Diets are shifting towards less ... MORE > > |
 | Mother Nature Can Help us Deal With Her Water Disasters Vladimir Smakhtin Almost every day we hear news about catastrophic flooding or drought somewhere in the world. And many nations and regions are on track for even more extreme water problems within a generation, the latest IPCC report warns. Extreme floods and droughts have a profound impact on development, ... MORE > > |
 | Sustainable Development Depends on Better Nutrition for All Nations Dr Lawrence Haddad and Dr David Nabarro From cold chains and blockchains - major technological revolutions are on the brink of transforming food systems. While cold chain technology can prevent losses as food travels from farm to market, blockchain technology can help digitally and accurately relay vast amounts of data between ... MORE > > |
 | Conserving Africa’s Precious Resource Base While Fighting Hunger Kalongo Chitengi Rosemary Chate’s seven children gather around the table inside their home in Malela, a village in Zambia’s remote Northern Province. They dig their spoons into bowls of food prepared by their mother – for the second time that day. Not long ago, Rosemary’s family would assemble to eat just once ... MORE > > |
 | Over and Under Nutrition: Two Sides of an Unhealthy Coin Tharanga Yakupitiyage A dramatic shift in the way we eat and think about food is more urgent than ever to prevent further environmental degradation and an even larger health epidemic. A diverse group of experts from academia, civil society, and United Nations agencies convened at the sidelines of the General ... MORE > > |
 | Making Every Euro Count in the Fight Against Malnutrition José Graziano da Silva Everybody wants to end hunger. That is what all UN-member countries stated when signing the 2030 Agenda for a better world: the second of its 17 goals aims at eradicating all forms of malnutrition (which include overweight, obesity or micronutrient deficiencies) and ensuring that everybody has ... MORE > > |
 | Local Communities in Mexico Show Ways to Fight Obesity Emilio Godoy Manuel Villegas is one of the peasant farmers who decided to start planting amaranth in Mexico, to complement their corn and bean crops and thus expand production for sale and self-consumption and, ultimately, contribute to improving the nutrition of their communities. "Amaranth arrived in this ...MORE > > |
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