A plea for a UN summit on the global food crisis

A coalition of civil society organizations, (CSOs), including climate activists, anti-poverty campaigners and celebrity chefs, are among those calling for an emergency meeting of world leaders on the global food crisis during the UN General Assembly (UNGA) sessions in New York next month. With 735 million people going hungry, 122 million

Food import financing needed to help countries in crisis, FAO says

Import financing is urgently needed to help avert the worst of the global food crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organization said. Sixty-two low- to upper-middle-income countries are eligible for an FAO-proposed Food Import Financing Facility to help make food more affordable, FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero said at an online event