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The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined significantly in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported today. UNIFEED

In his video remarks, UN Secretary-General Guterres reiterated, “this has to be the decade of decisive climate action. That means trust, multilateralism and collaboration. We have a choice. Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.” UNIFEED

Speaking at the Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference in Bali, Indonesia, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Monday said, “we need to do more, especially for the most vulnerable, to incorporate disaster risk in how we live, build, and invest.” UNDRR

The US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell signaled a half-point rate hike is in the cards soon to combat inflation. IMF

The world’s financial leaders are set to meet in Washington, DC next week for the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings. IMF

The World Health Organization (WHO), the Republic of Korea and the WHO Academy announced on Tuesday the establishment of a global biomanufacturing training hub that will serve all low- and middle-income countries wishing to produce biologicals, such as vaccines, insulin, monoclonal antibodies and cancer treatments. WHO

Disruptions and delays to HIV services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic led to declines in HIV testing and diagnoses in 2020 for the first time in more than two decades. UNITAID

UNHCR volunteers like Almalyn Akmad are going door to door to register people in the Sama Bajau community in the Philippines, and help them get their birth certificates. UNHCR

British Chancellor Rishi Sunak at COP26 announced that nearly 500 financial services firms from across the world have agreed to align $130 trillion of their assets to the climate goals in the Paris Agreement - including limiting global warming to 1.5C. UNIFEED

In a historic declaration at COP26, global leaders including Xi Jinping, Joe Biden and Jair Bolsonaro signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, committing countries to halt and reverse global deforestation over the next decade as part of a multibillion-dollar package to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. UNIFEED