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28/09/2020

Stop Food Loss and Waste. For the People. For the Planet

Boats laden with fresh food.

Floating market on a canal in Bangkok, where local boats are laden with fresh food. | PHOTO:©Mint Images

The COVID-19 pandemic continues generating significant challenges to food security in many countries. Disruptions in supply chains, quarantine measures, the closure of much of the hospitality industry and schools…

All these measures have resulted in a loss of markets for producers and distributors, making the situation even more challenging while dealing with high levels of food waste.

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28/09/2020

‘One-Third of Food Produced for Human Consumption Is Lost or Wasted While More than 820 Million People Continue to Go Hungry Every Day’

Vendor and consumer transaction in a supermarket. Both of them wearing face masks.
Market place in Kenya. April, 2020. Photo: World Bank / Sambrian Mbaabu

A new International Day with a difficult starting point

One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally while more than 820 million people in the world continue to go hungry every day.

Cutting food loss and waste reduces poverty and hunger and fights climate change.

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28/09/2020

Massive Floods in Sudan Impact Thousands of Refugees

Human Wrongs Watch

By Roland Schönbauer in Khartoum, Sudan*

South Sudanese refugees remain in urgent need of support after heavy rains and floods damage their shelters. |  Español   |  Français   |  عربي

5f6b0ff54South Sudanese refugee, Bak, 80, stands next to his shelter that was damaged by massive flooding in Sharq Al-Nile, Sudan.
© UNHCR/Roland Schönbauer

24 September 2020  (UNHCR)* — Looking back at the years he has spent in Sudan, Bak does not remember seeing anything like the recent floods that have wreaked havoc across the country.

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27/09/2020

What UN Needs Is a Cease-Fire Inside Its Own Security Council

Human Wrongs Watch

By Thalif Deen*

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2020 (IPS)* – With more than 20,000 civilians killed last year in conflicts in 10 countries — including Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen– UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his call for a “global cease-fire”: a proposal which failed to generate a positive response since he first announced it last March.
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27/09/2020

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: 10 Years to Heal the Planet

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Photo by UNEP/Florian Fussstetter

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, led by UNEP, FAO and partners covers terrestrial as well as coastal and marine ecosystems.

A global call to action, it will draw together political support, scientific research and financial muscle to massively scale up restoration.

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26/09/2020

The Dying Planet Report 2020

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By Robert Hunziker*

24 September 2020 – Los Angeles, USA (Pressenza)* — The World Wildlife Foundation, in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London, recently issued an eye-popping description of the forces of humanity versus life in nature, the Living Planet Report 2020, but the report should really be entitled the Dying Planet Report 2020 because that’s what’s happening in the real world. Not much remains alive.

The Dying Planet Report 2020
Image by Bela Geletneky from Pixabay

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24/09/2020

The Ecological Impact of Militarism

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By John Scales Avery*

Against the institution of war

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Against the institution of war | Image from Wall Street International.

24 September 2020 (Wall Street International)*  — As we start the 21st century and the new millennium, our scientific and technological civilization seems to be entering a period of crisis.

Today, for the first time in history, science has given to humans the possibility of a life of comfort, free from hunger and cold, and free from the constant threat of infectious disease.

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23/09/2020

The Ice Is Disappearing, BUT a Movement Is Emerging

Human Wrongs Watch

By Will McCallum*

Today, scientists sounded another alarm on the impacts of the climate breakdown:  the Arctic sea ice minimum has reached its 2nd lowest level since measurements began.

Icescape in the Arctic. © Daniella Zalcman / Greenpeace
View from the Arctic Sunrise as it reaches the sea ice edge off the coast of Greenland. A Greenpeace team is in the Arctic to document and bear witness to the 2020 sea ice minimum. © Daniella Zalcman / Greenpeace

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23/09/2020

Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Is 2nd Lowest on Record

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22 September 2020 (WMO)* —  Arctic sea ice – a key climate change indicator – has reached its annual minimum extent after the summer melt season. It was the second lowest extent only after the record low observed in 2012.
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The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced that on 15 September, sea ice extent was 3.74 million square kilometers (1.44 million square miles).

The Alfred Wegener Institute Institute confirmed this reading, with figures from the University of Bremen saying it was 3.8 million square km.

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23/09/2020

It’s Alive! Soil Is Much More Than You Think

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Soil biodiversity is the foundation for human life

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Soils are lifesavers in a number of ways. Let’s give them the care they deserve! ©Africa Studio/shutterstock.com

22 September 2020 (FAO)* — When we go about our daily routines, most of us are unaware that beneath our feet lies an outstandingly diverse community of plants, animals and microbes that makes up our soils.

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