The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Sri Lanka has this week handed over 780 tonnes of urea to the Ministry of Agriculture, procured through the UN Central Emergency Relief Fund (UN-CERF).  Urea is badly needed by […]

Policy seminar: Agriculture in the Americas and COP27 Nov 14, 2022 jmcquaid Mon, 11/14/2022 – 09:05 Policy seminar: Agriculture in the Americas and COP27 Adriana Campos Valeria Piñeiro Daniela Soto Prospects for fostering mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. IFPRI Blog : Event Post Open Access | CC-BY-4.0 Nov 14, 2022by Adriana […]

Photo: Pixabay/MARUF_RAHMAN Chronic air pollution is more than just a nuisance. It is an acute health hazard and the more we learn about its insidious effects on our bodies, the worse the picture gets. Adding to the already large corpus on research about medical conditions airborne pollutants can cause or […]

  MEDIA ADVISORY AND INVITATION The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Samoa, through its Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF), have invited leaders from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific, as well as heads of technical and resource partner organizations, […]

Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR works with refugee volunteers to re-green the camps and restore the ecosystem by planting thousands of trees, shrubs and grasses, restoring waterways, and distributing LPG to households.

President Joe Biden held a three-hour talk Monday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, their first in-person encounter since Biden took office and an opportunity that both sides appeared to hope would lead to an improvement in rapidly deteriorating relations.

Photo: Pixabay/saslonch  Hydroelectric dams have been widely panned by environmentalists for damaging the health of rivers and their ecosystems. Yet many dams are being unfairly maligned because their reservoirs can help feed the world’s population of 8 billion, say researchers at Stanford University. The scientists quantified the amount of water […]