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Transforming the way we produce, distribute and consume food offers a unique opportunity to curb greenhouse emissions, but investments are urgent to scale up the solutions available, says Kaveh Zahedi, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations climate division, ahead of the most important climate summit of the year, the forthcoming 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28). FAO

Ahead of COP 28, beginning at the end of the month in Dubai, Secretary-General António Guterres traveled to China and Nepal during the month of October to highlight the urgency of reducing emissions to combat climate change. UNIFEED / FILE

Ismahane Elouafi, Chief Scientist of the Food and Agriculture Organization, said that with the appropriate use of science, technology, and innovation, we can grow food sustainably with less environmental impact. FAO

A global UN survey on how persons with disabilities are prepared to cope with disasters reveals severe lack of progress since analysis a decade ago. UNDRR / PRACTICAL ACTION

Weather-related disasters caused 43.1 million internal displacements of children in 44 countries over a six-year period – or approximately 20,000 child displacements a day - according to a new UNICEF analysis released. UNICEF

Enrique Austria Manalo, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines, addresses the general debate of the 78th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 19 - 23 and 26 September 2023).

The first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation will be hosted in Rome by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from 25 to 27 September 2023. FAO

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence said that the enormity of online scam trafficking in Southeast Asia is difficult to estimate because of the clandestine nature and gaps in the official response. UNTV CH

During an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a UN top official said, "Human trafficking is a crime that hides not just in the shadows but in plain sight." UNIFEED

At the commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Piotr Hofmański, said, “In all our work, we seek to serve those who need justice the most – the victims.” UNIFEED