Every year, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific celebrates the importance of World Food Day. This year, given the COVID-19 global pandemic and the disruptions it has caused to livelihoods and food security, our celebrations are muted, yet within this context, today’s World Food Day itself has become […]

On 24 September 2020, the European Commission (Commission) launched its Digital Finance Strategy (Strategy). The Strategy includes, among other elements: (i) a proposal for a Regulation on Markets in Crypto-Assets with its accompanying Annex (Markets Regulation); and (ii) a proposal for a Regulation on a pilot regime for Market Infrastructure […]

Oct 12, 2020 In the News India Perception, Reality, and Optimality: The MSP Composite in relation to the Farm Acts (The Rise) Agriculture Production Trade Markets Governance The Rise (India) published an op-ed by Mamata Pradhan, Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy, and Sunil Saroj. The authors write, “Agriculture in India needs to get the […]

Country: Nigeria Source: International Committee of the Red Cross The number of children treated by the outpatient nutrition program has grown by 20%, while the number of severe malnutrition cases has risen by 10%, compared with the same period last year.

The planet has been warming and it has been the surface of our oceans that has absorbed much of the excess temperature in the atmosphere. Yet it isn’t just the water’s surface that has been warming, say scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States. […]