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 […]

Apr 28, 2020 – 10:00 am to 11:15 am EDT Seminar Food Security Food Systems Globalization Health Meeting the SDGs Nutrition Poverty Virtual Event –Discussion of the 2020 Global Food Policy Report Please type your questions into the chat box with name, affiliation, and country.  IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy […]