Tuesday, November 19, 2024
After a year that has seen climate change destroy agriculture in regions already struggling with high level of food insecurity and malnutrition, attention at COP29 turns to food systems. In 2022, 148 million children globally were ‘stunted’ (...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Many children in low-income countries endure their entire school day without a nutritious meal, a situation that demands urgent attention. They arrive at school hungry and struggle to concentrate. Some even miss entire school days due to lack of food....
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Wawira Njiru, Founder and CEO of Food for Education, is on a mission to feed millions of schoolchildren across Africa. Currently, her organization provides 450,000 meals daily to over 1,200 schools across Kenya. Ahead of World Food Day on 16...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
While the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on food system disruptions was widely covered, underlying food system vulnerabilities across Asia and the Pacific had been steadily growing long before these crises unfolded. A comprehensive...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
A member of the Kaqchikel Indigenous Mayan people, Ajú is one of tens of thousands of smallholder farmers across the country the World Food Programme (WFP) supports in improving production and locating viable markets. Smallholder farmers make...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Laruwati Kamat, a rural woman farmer from Siraha district in eastern Nepal, has always known the value of fresh food. For generations, her family followed seasonal patterns to cultivate vegetables, believing certain months were the only viable time to...
Monday, October 14, 2024
Confronting food waste becomes increasingly urgent when we are faced with alarming data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) indicating that 1 billion tons of food were wasted in 2022. This amounts to about one-fifth of total global...
Friday, September 27, 2024
In Malawi, the Home-Grown School Feeding Program (HGSFP) - supported by the European Union (EU) and the World Food Programme (WFP) - is transforming nutrition through biofortified crops. From June 25-30 2024, awareness meetings...
Friday, August 2, 2024
Informal employment encompasses workers who are not effectively covered by formal arrangements, such as commercial laws, reporting procedures for economic activities, income taxation, labor legislation, or social security laws. This lack of coverage...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
With the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approaching, significant strides have been made, yet considerable work remains to be done. Multilateral cooperation stands as the linchpin for accelerating progress towards these...
