Food waste index report 2024
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
The fear is that the official climate deal likely to come out the UN conference in Copenhagen will be focused on
Agriculture is currently the most cost-effective, market-ready way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Scientific research is needed to determine which agricultural techniques, practices, and systems will achieve actual climate mitigation.
This data sheet assesses the countries' resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change impacts, and highlights the objectives carried by the Millennium Development Goals, such as improving infrastructure to enhance food and water security, and investments in education, health, and gender equity, that can be cost-effective components of national and international responses to climate change and
This document argues that climate change promises serious negative impacts on agricultural systems. These same systems and the natural resources that support them are already under severe strain from over-exploitation, the current climate, and multiple other stresses.
This report presents some fundamental issues, challenges and concepts in order to improve policy-makers understandings of and preparations for coping with both the causes and the impacts of climate change on food security.
Mainstreaming gender equity has become a strategic objective of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
The energy demand in Asia and the Pacifi c is expected to rise as
International trade in fishery products has increased, together with the absolute and relative importance of aquaculture, as a source of fish production. Shrimp and salmon are two examples of species grown in developing countries that are traded internationally.
This is the fourth edition of the Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of the World Population Report. This Youth Supplement addresses climate change and young people, through the lens of what impact climate change is predicted to have, and what that will mean for young people's lives, livelihoods, health, rights and development.
Farming practices that capture carbon and store it in agricultural soils offer some of the most promising options for early and cost-effective action on climate change in developing countries, while contributing to food security, FAO said in a policy brief prepared for the Copenhagen summit.