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With Thailand having one of the highest numbers of stateless people in the world, community volunteers in the northern province of Chiang Mai are working to help stateless people in ethnic minority villages navigate the complex process of applying for nationality. UNHCR

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

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP27, will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, between 6-18 November 2022, under the presidency of Egypt. UNIFEED / FILE

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), under the Blue Transformation initiative, is supporting Thailand to improve the productivity of the aquaculture sector and meet the increasing demand for nutritious food. FAO

With the movement of population on the rise, it is important that countries get prepared to respond to the urgent needs that the health sector might confront, a WHO expert warned the day the UN agency launched its first world report on the health of refugees and migrants. WHO

The number of internally displaced people due to the conflict in Myanmar has doubled since last year’s military coup and currently amounts to more than 800,000 people, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said today as it scales up its emergency response in the country. UNTV CH

“Today, I think that we can say that the end of coal is within sight”, COP26 President Alok Sharma declared as Poland, Vietnam and Chile among other countries committed to phase out coal-fuelled power generation and to stop building new plants on Energy Day at the summit Thursday. UNIFEED

WFP is due to run out of some food stocks [wheat flour] as early as October. WFP requires immediate upfront funds to support the millions of people depending on WFP to deliver food. This is Afghanistan’s hour of greatest need. WFP needs the international community to step up and support them. WFP

Over the last 30 years, the burden of hypertension has shifted from wealthy nations to low and middle-income countries, according to a report led by Imperial College London and the World Health Organization (WHO). UNTV CH

The Thai Horizontal Mechanical Engineering Company (HMEC) attached to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan have created agricultural demonstration plots at the Yei Checkpoint in the capital of Juba in an effort to teach residents of the three surrounding communities how to successfully grow food by which they can feed themselves with what they have. UNMISS