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The UN held a Food Systems Summit during the 76th UN General Assembly’s high-level week. Serving as a review of the global food system, the Summit yielded a statement of action that sets out plans for a new coordination hub to implement outcomes. The UN will hold a global stocktaking of progress every two years. The UN held a Food Systems Summit as a virtual…

The net loss of forests continues to increase in Africa, despite initiatives, programs and policies to restore ecosystems. In a study released on September 29th, 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union Development Agency-Nepad, reveal that the continent is losing up to 4 million hectares of forest each year. The first-ever Africa…

By Rattan Lal // 23 September 2021 Perhaps the greatest hope for a more sustainable future lies underfoot: our planet’s soil. This week, the first U.N. Food Systems Summit has brought stakeholders together to strategize about bringing positive change to the world’s food systems. Soil health is not only at the foundation of our food systems but remains critical for the…

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sean Fleming, Senior Writer, Formative Content 7 billion trees that hadn’t been counted before have been discovered in Africa. The collaboration between Google and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization has also identified many opportunities…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union Commission (AUC) led a land-use data collection and analysis between 2018 and 2020. With the support of the Panafrican Agency of the Great Green Wall (GGW), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and 30 African countries, FAO and the AUC coordinated the data collection operation on a scale unseen…

October 4, 2021 By Venkat Iyer, Mary Gronkiewicz, Samuel Kabiru, Will Anderson and Amanda Gant Cover Image by: Will Anderson/WRI Cet article est également disponible en français ici. Here’s the good news: In the past decade, development banks and the private sector have made financial commitments of more than $16 billion to restore Africa’s degraded farms, forests and other…