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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is providing high-quality seeds to smallholder farmers and agricultural assistance for rural communities in front-line regions of Ukraine to ensure they will not miss the spring planting season. FAO

The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing the 2023 edition of its annual World Health Statistics report with new figures on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the latest statistics on progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). WHO

The UN General Assembly adopted a political declaration to renew commitment and accelerate the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction up to 2030. UNIFEED

According to a new UN report, prospects for a robust global economic recovery remain dim amid stubborn inflation, rising interest rates, and heightened uncertainties. UNIFEED

General Assembly President Csaba Kőrösi said it was time “to get serious about debt relief in Middle-income countries, which host the majority of the extreme poor in the world,’ and called for the international community “to go beyond GDP as the primary measure of development.” UNIFEED

The Eighteenth Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF18) kicked off today in New York to discuss the links between the Global Forest Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “people around the world are feeling massive anxiety,” and it is “a moment where the world needs to take stock of where we are” with regards to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNIFEED

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem, concluded an official 3-day mission to Fiji, which commenced on 24 April and included visiting Makoi Maternity Unit in Suva, and Nabavatu Village in Vanua Levu. UNFPA

Of the roughly 140 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only about 10 percent are on track to be reached by 2030, close to half are moderately or severely off track, and some 30 percent have either seen no movement or regressed below the 2015 baseline, according to a new UN report. UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said, “Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been.” UNIFEED