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14 March 2025 (UNCTAD)* — Governments are grappling with soaring debt costs that are squeezing public finances and stalling development.
Default image copyright and description © Shutterstock/sntes |Women trudge miles to fetch safe drinking water in Baidoa, Somalia. Public debt burdens can undermine countries’ ability to invest in essential services and infrastructure.
(UN News)* — The rapid spread of the highly infectious avian flu virus H5N1 has reached an “unprecedented” scale, wiping out hundreds of millions of birds worldwide and increasingly spilling over into mammals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday .
New FAO study notes a nearly 40 percent price surge in 2024 due to supply-side disruptions, primarily from unfavourable weather
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Smallholder farmers account for 80 percent of global coffee production. ©FAO/Santiago Billy
Rome (FAO)* – World coffee prices reached a multi-year high in 2024 – increasing 38.8 percent on the previous year’s average – mostly driven by inclement weather affecting key producing countries, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 14 March 2025 said.
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