Issue Post April 23, 2020 Global Report on Food Crises: 135 million in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2019 Sara Gustafson Conflict and climate and economic shocks contribute to rising global hunger numbers.

Plastic pollution has reached pandemic levels worldwide, with the colossal amounts of plastic waste posing grave risks to the health of ecosystems both on land and in the oceans. It’s also a threat to human health with microplastics having permeated our food and water, and even our table salt. There […]

Confusing and sometimes conflicting reports emerged Tuesday about the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. That was followed by intense speculation on his whereabouts, his medical condition and the future of the world’s only hereditary communist state.

The livelihoods of millions of family farmers in Pakistan have been affected by a series of natural hazards in the last 14 months and now stand to be devastated by the spread of COVID-19, but action is underway to help them, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations […]