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Nearing the conclusion of a sometimes fractious two-week meeting, nations of the world today agreed on a historic package of measures deemed critical to addressing the dangerous loss of biodiversity and restoring natural ecosystems.UN BIODIVERSITY

Amid a looming food-security crisis linked to Sri Lanka’s cost-of-living crunch, the country’s most vulnerable breadwinners wonder how much longer they can cope, as the Government battles the nation’s worst economic crisis since independence in 1948. UNTV CH

As world leaders meet next week at COP 27 to negotiate deals over lowering emissions to mitigate against the changing climate, farmers in Nepal have come up with a simple way to adapt from their own backyard. IFAD

Agricultural automation can play an important role in making food production more efficient and more environmentally friendly. However, its uneven adoption can also deepen inequalities, especially if it remains inaccessible to small-scale producers and other marginalized groups, such as youth and women. FAO

More than one in four Ukrainian rural farming households had to reduce or completely stop agricultural production as a result of the war, according to a recent assessment by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). UNTV CH

The World Health Organization today released its largest review of world mental health since the turn of the century. The detailed work provides a blueprint for governments, academics, health professionals, civil society and others with an ambition to support the world in transforming mental health. WHO

The war in Ukraine will impact consumers worldwide as the resulting increases in the price of food, energy, and fertilizers put the next global harvests at risk, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, warned. FAO

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said hunger remains at unprecedented levels in Afghanistan with more than half of the population acutely food insecure. FAO

Globally, poisoning is an under-recognized and under reported major public health concern. While the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all countries establish and strengthen poisons centres, fewer than half of WHO Member States have one. WHO

Mounting numbers of people face acute hunger and require urgent life-saving assistance, with number acutely hungry people in countries hit by food crises reaching in 2020 the highest level in five years, an annual report launched by an international alliance of UN, governmental and non-governmental agencies working to tackle food crises together has found. FAO