Led by vegetable oils and dairy products, the FAO Food Price Index rises to a new record high. Early forecasts point to strong prospects for maize and wheat in the year ahead.
A new study shows the economic costs of invasive species and how they relate to corresponding management measures. It concludes that precautionary measures could save a trillion euro worldwide.
The number of hungry people has been rising over the last years, and the world is far off-track in achieving SDG 2 “Zero Hunger”. The African Union has now declared the Year of Nutrition for Africa in order to fight…
Leaders of the EU and AU agreed to a renewed Partnership for solidarity, security, peace and sustainable and sustained economic development and prosperity.
Oceans play an important role in climate, environmental and social balances but these ecosystems are threatened by pollution and overfishing. World leaders tried to find solutions to protect our oceans at the One Ocean…
Global leaders committed at COP26 to halt and reverse forest loss. But still the majority of influential companies and financial institutions are doing little or nothing to tackle deforestation, latest data show.
The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index can help as a guiding tool for policy makers, and as a monitoring tool for projects and programmes that seek to tackle rural poverty by providing more specific data on people’s…
Ninety per cent of food production depends on the soil. However, soils are increasingly coming under pressure. Ministers of agriculture have agreed on measures to strengthen sustainable use and management of soils.
What are the factors making agricultural investments in Africa a success ? And how can smallholder farmers benefit from investments so that they can earn a living income in the long run? These questions were addressed at…
Deaths are lower in the fourth COVID-19 wave on the African continent than in the previous waves and hospitalisations have remained low, according to WHO.
Through the resettlement of seagrass meadows on the coasts, large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are to be removed in the future to combat climate change. But the fight against climate change by…
Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate as a result of deforestation, but natural forest restoration can have significant beneficial impacts on climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation over the…
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