UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed on Tuesday called for urgent efforts to boost climate action, protect biodiversity, promote sustainable food systems, and ensure decent jobs and social protection.
A joint UN programme is helping women entrepreneurs in Cambodia access affordable loans and buy solar powered technologies to help grow their farms and businesses.
UN Resident Coordinator Christine Umutoni reflects on Liberia's socio-economic development journey. Liberians have demonstrated tremendous resilience, battling the devastating impacts of Ebola and COVID-19, contending with growing inflation, mobilizing grassroots leadership and making slow but sure dents in tackling infant mortality.
In the newly launched UN Forests Podcast, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh is joined by Prof. Almut Arneth, Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on land and climate change and Roman Michalak from the UN Economic Commission for Europe to unpack the unique relationship between climate change and forests.
Speaking at the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment in Rome, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed announced the launch of a new initiative to tackle investments in food systems.
In 2022, as many as 783 million people in the world faced hunger, with women and people living in rural areas disproportionately food insecure. Our food systems are failing to deliver food security. It is clear that to change this situation, we need trust and collective action.
UN teams on the ground have been working with local and national partners to strengthen food security, support agricultural adaption and take small but significant steps to keep the commitments to a food systems transformation alive.
The term ‘fighter for peace’ takes on new meaning in the form of a five-time world boxing champion combating hate speech in cooperation with the United Nations.
