Exploring trade actions to fight acute food insecurity and the threat of famine
Stories & Blogs UNCTADJul 30, 2025(News )Chronic hunger affects over 700 million lives. Trade can be part of the solution by facilitating market supplies, helping stabilize prices and improving access to more resilient food systems.
Low-income countries hit hardest by global food price inflation.
Stories & Blogs FAOJul 22, 2025(News )Special Event in New York explores the causes, consequences and solutions to the 2021-2023 food price inflation.
FAO: Innovation and national product branding can transform agrifood systems in Africa and Asia.
Stories & Blogs FAOJul 15, 2025(News )Africa and Asia can learn from each other to use innovation and national product branding to transform agrifood systems, improving food, nutrition and livelihood security, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) told an Africa-As
New data shows that crops like wheat, coffee, beans and cassava could lose half of the best land for growing them by 2100.
Stories & Blogs FAOJun 05, 2025(News )Findings come from FAO’s upgraded Adaptation, Biodiversity and Carbon Mapping Tool “ABC-Map”, further boosting capacity to assess and confront climate-related shocks.
Ocean for sustainable development: What needs to happen next.
Stories & Blogs UNCTADJun 05, 2025(News )The 2025 UN Ocean Conference offers a pivotal chance to shore up a more sustainable blue economy for ocean health and shared prosperity.
Acute food insecurity and malnutrition rise for sixth consecutive year in world’s most fragile regions – new report.
Stories & Blogs FAOMay 16, 2025(Story )In 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger—an increase of almost 14 million people compared to 2023, while the number of people facing catastrophic levels of hunger reached a record high.
Desert locust movements in Northwest Africa raise concern amid spring breeding season.
Stories & Blogs FAOApr 29, 2025(News )FAO calls to enhance monitoring and initiate early control measures in affected countries
Harnessing frontier technology for food security in Nigeria.
Stories & Blogs UNCTADFeb 12, 2025(News )Africa’s most populous nation is making strides in agricultural innovation by leveraging satellite imagery, earth observation systems and remote sensing tools.
Delivering lifesaving health services for flood-displaced families in Nigeria
Stories & Blogs WHO – AfricaNov 18, 2024(News )Borno state, in northeastern Nigeria, has been severely impacted by recent floods, which have displaced more than 400 000 people and led to 37 deaths.
Carbon markets ‘a powerful tool’ for least developed countries, COP29 hears
Stories & Blogs UNCTADNov 15, 2024(News )At the annual climate summit, UN Trade and Development urges stronger action to help least developed nations tap into carbon markets for sustainable and resilient growth.