The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) has warned world leaders of famines of biblical proportions in 2021 if steps were not taken to quickly address the hunger triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic that has hit the world hard. “We were able to avert it in 2020 … because the world leaders responded with money, stimulus […]
U.S. efforts to have the U.N sanctions on Iran reimposed will have “dangerous consequences,” Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif said in a letter to the UN, Reuters reported. Zarif added that the U.S. has no right to trigger the re-imposition of U.N. sanctions on Iran. “The U.S. push to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran will have […]
Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday slashed India growth forecast for the calendar year 2020 to 0.2 per cent, from 2.5 per cent projected in March. For 2021, Moody’s expects India’s growth to rebound to 6.2 per cent. In its report titled – Global Macro Outlook 2020-21 (April 2020 update), Moody’s has lowered G-20 advanced economies […]
World food prices rose for the first time in five months in October, boosted by jumps in quotations for sugar and cereals, the United Nations food agency said. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy products, meat and sugar, averaged 172.7 points […]
China’s total planned coal-fired power projects now stand at 226.2 gigawatts (GW), the highest in the world and more than twice the amount of new capacity on the books in India, according to data published by environmental groups this week. The projects approved by China amount to nearly 40 per cent of the world’s total […]
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to India grew by 6 per cent to $42 billion in 2018, with strong inflows in the manufacturing, communication and financial services sectors, and cross-border merger and acquisition activities, according to a UN report that ranked India among the top 20 host economies for FDI inflows in 2017-18. The World Investment […]
The global decline in bee populations poses a serious threat to a wide variety of plants critical to human well-being and livelihoods, and countries should do more to safeguard our key allies in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, FAO stressed as it marked UN World Bee Day. Bees and other pollinators are declining in […]
Global food prices rose in April to their highest level in almost a year, led up by meat and dairy prices, according to UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of commonly traded food commodities, averaged 170 points in April, up 1.5 per […]
New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 or one in every nine people, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Limited progress is also being made in addressing the […]
According to the latest quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Shortages report released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) this month, people across 29 countries in the African continent cannot access food, or are facing food shortages. The FAO report says food prices have soared in recent months. Press agency Reuters reports that development banks are now […]
