Archive for November 10th, 2018

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10/11/2018

Waste Not, Want Not – Improve Diets by Reducing Food Loss and Waste

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A new policy brief calls for action to reduce the loss and waste of high-nutrient foods

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Foods such as fruits, vegetables and seeds are rich in nutrients, but are also highly perishable. | Photo from FAO.

ROME, 7 November 2018 (FAO)*  – With one in five deaths associated with poor-quality diets, a policy brief launched today urges policymakers to prioritize the reduction of food loss and waste as a way of improving people’s access to nutritious and healthy food.

The brief, Preventing nutrient loss and waste across the food system: Policy actions for high-quality diets, points out that poor-quality diets are now a greater public health threat than malaria, tuberculosis or measles.

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10/11/2018

Indigenous Food Systems Hold Answers for Zero Hunger

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Indigenous traditional knowledge and food systems may hold the answers we are looking for to achieve Zero Hunger, Director-General José Graziano da Silva said.

Photo: ©FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico

A panel session during the seminar

ROME (FAO)*  – Indigenous Food systems and indigenous traditional knowledge have survived hundreds and sometimes thousands of years, therefore they may have some of the answers we are looking for, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva on , 9 November 2018 said.

FAO considers indigenous and tribal peoples as fundamental actors in the fight against poverty, hunger and all other forms of malnutrition, as well as in the promotion of sustainable agriculture practices,” Graziano da Silva said in a keynote speech wrapping up High-Level Expert Seminar on Indigenous Food Systems held to explore how to build on traditional knowledge to achieve Zero Hunger.

Failing to grasp and support indigenous food systems risks losing ancestral knowledge and centuries of know-how.

“The loss of biodiversity, is also the loss of our identity of our foods and medicines, said Taita Ignacio Morales, a traditional healer from the Muiska-Piuret people of Colombia.

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10/11/2018

Multilateralism More Vital than Ever, as World War Centenary Looms – Security Council

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9 November 2018 – With the centenary of the end of the First World War just days away, the Security Council reaffirmed the crucial importance of multilateralism – or international cooperation and collective problem-solving – and highlighted the key role played by the United Nations since its creation 73 years ago.

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas | Secretariat Building at United Nations Headquarters

Noting that the global conflict of 1914-1918 was “a colossal tragedy and a frightening harbinger of bloody decades to follow”, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, noted in his opening statement that “without mechanisms for international problem-solving,” a second world war ensued within a generation.

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10/11/2018

‘US Must Abide by Humanitarian Refugee Accords’ – UN Refugee Agency

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Responding to United States President Donald Trump’s proclamation which would deny political asylum to migrants crossing illegally into the country,  the UN refugee agency UNHCR, released a statement on 9 November 2018 saying that the US must abide by international refugee protection accords.

UNIC Mexico/Antonio Nieto | Central american migrants at the Jesús Martínez ‘Palillo’ stadium located in the east of Mexico City. A woman holds a poster asking: Are you afraid to return to your country? 6 October 2018.

The Presidential Proclamation would reportedly ban migrants applying for asylum outside official ports of entry, which will impact migrants attempting to illegally enter the country from the southern border with Mexico, although legal challenges are expected to follow the move.

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