"AGRICULTURE"

General Assembly adopts resolution addressing global food crisis.

Farmers in Kenya are learning to work with nature to improve their livelihoods and adapt to climate change. IFAD

The UN humanitarian agencies are warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months due to a combination of insecurity, the coronavirus pandemic, climate induced shocks and record-high food prices in the region. UNTV CH

The World Bank on Wednesday announced it is spending up to $30 billion as part of a comprehensive, global response to the ongoing food security crisis, in areas such as agriculture, nutrition, social protection, water and irrigation. WORLD BANK

The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today called for greater funding for agriculture to ensure there’s available and accessible food in crisis situations, noting that conflict “remains the single greatest driver of hunger.” FAO

Secretary-General António Guterres told Security Council members that when they “fail to reach consensus, hungry people pay a high price.” UNIFEED

Lack of grain exports driving global hunger to famine levels, as war in Ukraine continues, speakers warn Security Council.

Lack of grain exports driving global hunger to famine levels, as war in Ukraine continues, speakers warn Security Council.

Yemeni honey is globally appreciated, the country’s tradition of beekeeping goes back centuries. Poems and songs have praised its many virtues, but local bees and beekeepers are threatened by increasing challenges due to the ongoing conflict. FAO

United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, model and actress Sabrina Dhowre Elba, visited Kenya recently to draw attention to the increasing threat that climate change, COVID-19, and the war in Ukraine are having on small-scale farmers’ productivity and livelihoods in Africa and around the world. IFAD