Photo: Pixabay/Mhy Deforestation in tropical nations has deprived vast territories of wildlife habitats and carbon sinks, but logging and land clearning aren’t the only activities that are posing a threat to remaining forests. In Indonesia, a country that still boasts plenty of tropical forest cover, nearly 60% of deforestation is […]

An estimated 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka are facing moderate to severe acute food insecurity and their situation is expected to worsen if adequate life-saving assistance and livelihood support is not provided, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme […]

On 31 August 2022, California legislators passed a bill that would ban the sale of agricultural land in the state to foreign governments. Introduced by state Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Fresno), the Food and Farm Security Act aims to protect the state’s agricultural industry from potentially adverse foreign interests, citing a […]

Photo: Pixabay/ckstockphoto As temperatures continue to rise worldwide we are losing our ability to make the best use of biomass from crops as a renewable energy source, scientists say. Unless we step up our efforts to embrace bioenergy and other renewables in favor of fossil fuels, we will miss our […]

Press Briefing: Taking Stock of Global Food Security six months into the Ukraine-Russia Conflict Sep 9, 2022 Sep 9, 2022 pfowlkes Fri, 09/09/2022 – 11:26 Press Briefing: Taking Stock of Global Food Security six months into the Ukraine-Russia Conflict Press Briefing: Taking Stock of Global Food Security six months into […]

Country: Myanmar Sources: Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, Save the Children Violent attacks on schools increased to more than 190 in 2021, from 10 in 2020, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack said in a report released on Friday.