"ECONOMY"

As the Afghan people confront widespread drought, rural dislocation and economic upheaval, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is providing critical life-saving assistance to farmers and herders, but also urging far greater support for agricultural production to feed the Afghan people. FAO

Inflation pressures have increased in most economies, but as supply-demand imbalances ease there should be a cooling of inflationary pressure next year, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said in a press briefing in Washington, DC. IMF

At the Young Activists Summit in Geneva today, six young people with inspirational plans for our world came to the United Nations to share their hopes and dreams, and to show other young people what could be achieved when a vision of making the world a better place becomes reality. UNTV CH

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi and announced the US will join talks on a new global treaty to curb plastic pollution. UNEP

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Deborah Lyons told the Security Council, “our tension now must turn to the vastly greater number of Afghans who remain in the country, but face in the short term the most dire future,” adding that “we are on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe that is preventable.” UNIFEED

Abandoning Afghanistan now, amid humanitarian crisis, would be ‘historic mistake’, Special Representative tells Security Council.

After extending the COP26 climate negotiations an extra day, nearly 200 countries in Glasgow, adopted on Saturday an outcome document that, according to the UN Secretary-General, reflects the interests, the contradictions, and the state of political will in the world today. UNIFEED

The Head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said COVID-19 “is surging in countries with lower vaccination rates in Eastern Europe, but also in countries with some of the world’s highest vaccination rates in Western Europe.” WHO

New findings indicate the food crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) shows little sign of abating, and could worsen in the coming months without scaled-up assistance, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today. WFP

The IMF announced Thursday (4 Nov) that the G20 welcomed the USD 650 billion Special Drawing Rights allocation from the IMF. This allocation was implemented over the summer and now the Fund is working on actionable options for its members with strong external positions to significantly magnify the impact of that allocation through voluntary channeling part of their allocated Special Drawing Rights to help more vulnerable countries. IMF