Tag: World Bank

The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Extreme Poverty: 150 Million 'New Poor' in One Year COVID-19 is converging with climate ...

FAO Investment Centre Director Mohamed Manssouri speaks about the impacts of COVID-19 on investment in agriculture and smallholder farmers, illustrating ...

In 2018 there was a small hog farm in China which was found to have the hugely contagious virus known ...

With the ongoing tragedy of the war in Syria, the refugee crisis has quite understandably dominated the conversation about immigration ...

Environmental degradation is a topic that gradually moved from scientific journals to international negotiations, as mounting evidence from the scientific ...

Central Kathmandu is in a frenzy, brimming with young Nepalis searching the streets for possibilities, biding their time in this ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS PIECE IS AUTHORED BY Paula Caballero, Senior Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice.  IT  IS ...

Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. –Albert Szent-Györgi, 1937 winner of ...

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth piece in a series in collaboration with the SDSN-Y exploring the Sustainable Development Goals. See ...

Michael Klein is not the average academic, happy to live in an ivory tower. He is deeply concerned with the ...

The inclusion of food issues has meant from the beginning that FAO had a very broad scope: it wasn't simply ...

Sorry to disappoint, but the UN is neither. Not a beast, not a dream utopia. Too often in the news ...