"FOOD PRODUCTION"

“The clock is very much ticking,” for Afghan farmers to start planting wheat, a crop “simply indispensable in food security terms,” the FAO’s Emergencies and Resilience Director Rein Paulsen said on Tuesday, urging support for the Afghanistan’s agriculture sector. UNIFEED

WHO’s plane carrying 12.5 metric tons of supplies, enough to cover the basic health needs of more than 200,000 people, as well as provide 3500 surgical procedures and treat 6500 trauma patients has landed in Afghanistan, the UN spokesperson said on Monday. UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General 

The Government of Italy has made an additional (USD) 2 million contribution to fund the Productive Sectors Development Programme (PSDP) that seeks to boost job creation, access to economic opportunities for women and youth, development and strengthen governance to boost economic growth in Somalia. UNSOM

Noon briefing by Florencia Soto Nino,​ Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Press Conference on the launch of the FAO's Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems Report.

A total of 184 countries voted in favour of a resolution to demand the end of the United States economic blockade on Cuba, for the 29th year in a row, with the United States and Israel voting against. UNIFEED

International organizations have come together to launch a new One Health High-Level Expert Panel to improve understanding of how diseases with the potential to trigger pandemics, emerge and spread. WHO

Severe hunger hits southern Madagascar as communities witness an almost total disappearance of food sources, creating a full-blown nutrition emergency and quadrupling the number of children admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition. WFP

The World Food Programme (WFP) said “unrelenting drought” in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to “the brink of famine,” according to a UN spokesperson. UNIFEED