As part of his agenda in Spain, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday met young people from the Spanish and European Youth Councils to mark the One Thousand days leading to the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. UN MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN
It’s predicted that by 2020 chocolate companies will be short of 1 million tons of cocoa. One solution from the world's second largest chocolate company, Mars Inc. has been to invest directly in small coca farmers in developing countries. Mars has teamed up with IFAD to provide cocoa farmers with training in new production techniques. [...]
Somalia's 3,300 kilometer coastline – the continent's longest – gives the country's fishermen access to over 400 different species of fish in both the Indian Ocean in the east, and Gulf of Adenin the north. Decades of insecurity have made it difficult for most fishermen here to cash in on their country's rich marine livestocks. [...]
The United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) 2013 Human Development Report entitled "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World" was launched in Mexico City today by UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto. UNDP
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visit's At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. UNTV
Hundreds of ministers and high-level officials dined on perfectly good food grown by Kenyan farmers but rejected by UK supermarkets due to cosmetic imperfections at the headquarters of the UN Environment Program (UNEP) inNairobito highlight a major campaign to cut massive levels of global food loss and waste. UNEP
Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tones of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched today (22 January) by the UN Environment Program. the Food and Agriculture Organization and partners. CH UNTV [...]
If only a quarter of the food that is now being wasted or lost was to be saved, that alone would be enough to feed the almost one billion people around the world who go hungry daily, a UN food expert said ahead of a new campaign against food waste to be launched in Geneva [...]
2013 is the International Year of the Quinoa, a highly nutritious food crop that was domesticated on the high plains of Bolivia and Peru thousands of years ago and has become trendy in many parts of the world. IFAD
Mumias Sugar Company, the leading sugar producer in Kenya, is an example of a company that is contributing to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by embracing sustainability in almost all its processes. UNEP