FAO unveiled its new Green Cities Initiative and Action Plan to help transform agri-food systems, end hunger and improve nutrition in and around the cities in a post COVID-19 [...]
The COVID-19 crisis has shown how deep inequalities make society as a whole more vulnerable —providing important lessons for building resilience in an era of climate change. The people most [...]
The researchers monitored drain water near Covid-19 isolation centres instead of treatment plants. Researchers from Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) and North South University (NSU) have detected traces [...]
Green recovery. Social protection. Smart containment. Decarbonisation. Putting progress in climate action at par with measuring GDP. Creative capacity. These phrases have been running through conversations these days around [...]
The number of people undernourished or chronically hungry worldwide could rise from 690 million to 820 million because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from the [...]
“We are facing two pandemics. COVID -19, which beyond its health toll is crushing livelihoods, and hunger, a scourge the international community pledged to eradicate by the end of [...]
The global report of International Labour Organization (ILO) captures the immediate effects of the pandemic on the lives of young people (aged 18–29) with regards to employment, education, mental [...]
From across the region, the UN in the Pacific brought together artists UN leaders, heads of State and international celebrities in the world’s first regional COVID-19 concert. The two-and-a-half-hour [...]
The coronavirus pandemic may have driven as many as 100 million people back into extreme poverty, World Bank President David Malpass warned on Thursday. The Washington-based development lender previously [...]
Theme of the WebinarMigration out of the rural community is believed (and found) to enhance people’s well-being through reducing rural unemployment with better and diverse job opportunities outside, improving the [...]
Kerala was the first Indian state to report a case of COVID-19 at the end of January. When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown on March [...]
Zero deaths. It's an achievement amid the coronavirus pandemic that governments from the United States to Italy can only dream of. While cases of COVID-19 shoot up in wealthy [...]
