Lead Authors: Liam Fee, Montse Gibert, Ryan Bartlett, Pasquale Capizzi, Radley Horton, Corey Lesk Contributing Authors: Mozaharul Alam, Annette Wallgren EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This assessment analyzes...
Manama, Baghdad, 22 October 2020 – The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Regional Office for West Asia based in Manama, Bahrain, and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq have joined forces...
By: Stefanie Kaegi and Hla Myo Thwe 1. Introduction Contract farming is a well-known mechanism to coordinate agricultural production and trade. It helps agricultural producers, processors, traders...
World Food Day, which falls on 16 October, is an opportunity to reassess how humanity produces, distributes and consumes food. Are we doing those things in a sustainable way that benefits farmers,...
World Food Day on 16 October calls for global solidarity to help all populations, and especially the most vulnerable, to recover from COVID-19. We asked Marieta Sakalian, a food systems and...
The Sudan State of the Environment and Outlook Report 2020 is the first of its kind to comprehensively take stock of the condition of the country’s environment and the trends affecting it. The report...
Context: Why does this matter? Across the region, communities have been hit hard by the sudden and unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For those at the frontlines of climate...
Context: Why does this matter? Across the region, communities have been hit hard by the sudden and unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For those at the frontlines of climate...
Context: Why does this matter? Across the region, communities have been hit hard by the sudden and unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). For those at the frontlines of climate...
Rome/Nairobi/New York , 29 September 2020 – At the global event marking today the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN...