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On December 17th, 2020, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) virtually launched a joint report that examines the implica... Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
BY REBIKA LAISHRAM , SARAH SCHWARTZ AND MARIA JONES Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest and before reaching consumers around the world, according to the FAO. In India, postharvest losses amount... Source: IFPRI South Asia Office
January 12, 2019 Divine Njie - Deputy Strategic Programme Leader, Food Systems Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Background It is very difficult to give an exact figure of the quantities of food loss and waste (FLW) that occur in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. Nevertheless, what is not in doubt is […] Source: IFPRI Egypt Country Office
Regular monitoring of food security and nutrition, and appropriate response, continues to be a major challenge in most developing countries, including Pakistan, mainly because of limitations in terms of data collection frequency, consistency, coverage, capacity to synthesize, reporting and ease of data access. Recognizing data limitations for evidence-based policy design and keeping in view Pakistan’s >> Read more Source: Pakistan Strategy Support Program
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World governments will need to lift 185,000 people out of hunger each day for the next 12 years in order to meet global goals to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. The calculation was made by Kostas Stamoulis, assistant director-general of the U.N. […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
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