UN agencies and US Peace Corps cooperate in fighting hunger The United Nations and the United States Peace Corps signed an agreement today to cooperate in combating worldwide hunger by increasing food security in the 76 countries where the more than 8,600 US volunteers currently work. The agreement, signed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) […]

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Peace corps strengthens global partnership with FAO and WFP Letter of agreement signed during Committee on World Food Security annual meeting 20 October 2011, Rome/Washington, D.C – The Peace Corps joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), and pledged to support and expand food security-related activities that […]

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UN stresses need for improved methods to measure desertification and poverty Better measurement standards for land degradation and poverty were the focus of discussions today at the United Nations desertification conference, with country representatives and scientific experts debating effective ways to establish global indicators to measure land degradation. Eleven countries shared their experiences measuring land […]

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Health gap between rich and poor in the spotlight at UN forum in Brazil With the health gap between rich and poor at its widest level in recent history, the United Nations today opened a three-day forum in Brazil to tackle the social, economic and environmental root causes of health inequities. “The differences, within and […]

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UN and partners scale up malaria response for two million Somalis at risk 17 October 2011 The United Nations and its partners are escalating their response measures to prevent a malaria outbreak in Somalia, where two million people already suffering from drought, famine and conflict are at higher risk of contracting the disease during the […]

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Investing in people the smartest way to eradicate poverty, UN says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon cautioned today that progress so far in the fight against poverty risked being reversed by a failure to put people at the centre of development policies and strategies aimed at economic recovery following the global financial crisis. “In the name of fiscal […]

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Food price swings threaten to push millions more people into hunger, UN warns The United Nations and international figures marked World Food Day today with calls for immediate aid and longer-term solutions, and warnings of factors that keep hundreds of millions mired in hunger, such as price swings and gender discrimination.In a message delivered to a […]

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Secretary-General urges leaders to heed public calls for global economic justice Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated his call for the leaders of the world’s biggest economies to restore public confidence in the global economic system, saying that mass protests in numerous cities around the world are the result of frustrations with inequality. Responding to a […]

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Senior UN official arrives in DPR Korea to assess food crisis The United Nations humanitarian chief arrived today in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to assess the extent of the country’s food crisis. During her five-day visit, the Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos, will visit various parts of the country, where […]

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World Food Day 2011 16 October 2011 > World Food Day 2011. About. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. The objectives of World Food Day are to: encourage attention to agricultural food production and to […]

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