Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 21, 2009, 0:37 IST

Even as the Copenhagen summit on global warming has concluded without finalising binding commitments to combat this challenge, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said the fisheries sector will be hugely affected by climate change, jeopardising food supply and livelihood of a large section of the world

Gavin Wall

Hunger is not only due to a lack of production; it is also a result of human-made policy choices. Efforts to reduce hunger will require a review of the way society is organised, its economic and social policies, the functioning of institutions and the allocation of resources.

Jay Naidoo

Good nutrition is the nexus point where food security, public health and environmental protection meet.

Mainstreaming gender equity has become a strategic objective
of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Report of the Joint Meeting of the FAO panel of experts on pesticide residues in food and the environment and the WHO core assessment group on pesticide residues held at Geneva, Switzerland from 16-25 Sep 2009.

With this Profile for Climate Change, FAO outlines its priorities for its current and future work on climate change. FAO

By 2025 there will be 9 billion people on Earth, all needing food. A look at the best ways to stave off starvation.

The recent World Food Summit in Rome clearly failed to do its job. It did well to focus attention on the risk of food price shocks of the magnitude experienced in mid-2008, which led to civil unrest in over 30 countries. Yet it abjured its responsibility to the vision of a world free from chronic hunger and malnutrition, especially child malnutrition.

Vani SKulkarni , Raghav Gaiha

United Nations: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon observed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with a billion hungry people worldwide, his spokesperson Marie Okabe has said.

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