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Daily Mail (UK) published an article on the UN Summit on Food Systems (UNFSS). The summit aims to deliver progress on 17 Sustainable Development Goals, created by the United Nations in 2015 as a wide-ranging “to-do” list including ending hunger and poverty, achieving gender equality, and taking action on climate change. The World Bank Group, IFPRI, and the […]

UN Dispatch published a summary of Day 4 at the UNFSS. Jemimah Njuki, Director for Africa. Dr. Njuki explains in a UN podcast (begins at 1:43) why this meeting was called and discusses some key outcomes from the Food Systems Summit. The world is NOT on track to meet the SDGs and end global hunger. COVID-19 has made food […]

Mondiaal Nieuws (the Netherlands) published an article on findings from agricultural experts regarding the inequalities and inequities of global food systems. Women produce more than half of the world’s food but are disadvantaged in terms of access to farmland and financial support. Among many statements from Head, Africa Region, Jemimah Njuki, was the urgency of inclusion. Gender gaps urgently need to […]

Alliance for Science published an article on proposals to end world hunger that will emerge from today’s historic United Nations Food Systems Summit that will only succeed if smallholder farmers are made the central pivot. Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Head, Africa Region, observed that the hungriest people in the world are smallholder farmers in rural areas. She called for a […]

Market Screener published an article on the remarks made at the UNFSS by David Malpass. In those remarks, he mentioned that the World Bank and partners at IFPRI and the Food and Land Use Coalition led an effort to rethink the way food systems are financed. “We identified eight action areas to shift public and private financing towards […]

Market Screener published an article stating that it would appear on the surface that the performance of the global food system over the last century has been extraordinarily positive.  However, costs linked to animal extinction, malnutrition, pollution, foodborne illness – and more – will continue to rise under a business-as-usual scenario as we feed a growing global population. […]

World Socialist Website published an article on how Global food prices have risen 33 percent in the last 12 months, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Basic staples such as vegetable oil, grains, and meat have shown some of the highest increases. With the world’s poorest countries lacking the resources to provide food subsidies […]

Nyasa Times published an article stating that neither reducing the scope of the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) such as eliminating seed subsidies nor circumventing the private sector to obtain fertilizers would reduce costs significantly to maintain current fertilizer subsidy levels. There is ongoing misinformation on the key drivers of the fertilizer prices surge and potential policy options for consideration by policymakers. It […]

SciDevNet published a post by Ruth Douglas who writes that as the UN Food Systems Summit looms large, how can we ensure that this much-anticipated event is not just a talking shop, but results in concrete action and investment? Senior research coordinator Namukolo Covic says an accountability mechanism is vital because of the number and nature of stakeholders in the […]

Daily Hunt published an article about the UNFSS stating that agencies of the UN and other NGOs have called for a sweeping review of global support to farmers that are making the planet warmer and also keeping it away from attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. A report was released suggesting changes to support and […]