Tag: food security

• Friday, July 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Brazil moves forward with food security initiative

  

  The Brazilian government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva brought this week its initiative to create a global alliance to combat hunger and poverty through the promotion of food security strategies and boosting people's income to a United Nations panel in New York, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Alberto Fernández stresses food security has taken a turn for the worse

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday denounced that projections regarding an improvement in the world's food situation after the COVID-19 pandemic was over had failed to materialize.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro, WTO chief agree on Brazil's role as food supplier

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro Monday acknowledged Brazil's role amid increasing global food insecurity as he met with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria in Brasilia.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:15 UTC

  Food Security becomes global agencies priority challenge

  

  The heads of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and WTO issued a joint statement on 13 April urging coordinated action to help vulnerable countries address growing threats to food security. The proposed actions include providing emergency food supplies and deploying financial support to households and countries, facilitating unhindered trade, and investing in sustainable food production and nutrition security.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 - 18:15 UTC

  Against hunger and for peace, EU and FAO are “committed to build a sustainable future”

  

  The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reaffirmed today at an event held in Rome their commitment to jointly address the challenges they share at the global level, such as stopping the increase in hunger, promote prosperity and peace, and build a more sustainable future for all.

• Wednesday, August 6th 2014 - 08:54 UTC

  US and India clash over food security clause at WTO and suspends TFA protocol

  

  The failure of the two major players in global trade negotiations to bridge their differences has put paid to the adoption of the protocol of amendment for implementation of the contested Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) for the time being.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 22:57 UTC

  Mercosur calls on Doha Round for an end of all farm export incentives by 2013

  

  Agriculture ministers from Mercosur full members plus Chile and Bolivia, as members of the Agriculture Council of the South, CAS, urged a quick conclusion of the World Trade Organization Doha Round negotiations to help combat poverty and ensure food security.

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Australian MPs plant to limit purchase of prime farmland by foreigners

  

  Australian lawmakers are demanding a review of foreign investment rules to stop foreign mining companies, including those from China, buying up prime farmland.