The world is facing a major challenge in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), which seeks to eliminate hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030.

The world is facing a major challenge in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), which seeks to eliminate hunger and all forms of malnutritionby 2030.

Growing up on a small rice farm in China in the 1960’s, my family was keenly aware that any single adverse weather event could wipe out a year’s worth of effort.

The future of food seems more and more uncertain in the Near East and North Africa (NENA region), as it faces growing food insecurity and malnutrition.

This year’s World Food Day finds us at a critical moment. The COVID-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship. The impacts of the climate crisis are all around us. Crops have gone up in flames. Homes have been washed away.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has entered a new era with a new structure and new dynamics. The 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are approaching; we have to change our agri-food systems urgently and holistically.

Mountains are home to a growing number of the hungriest people in the world.A new study by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and its partners shows that the number of mountain people vulnerable to food insecurity in developing countries increased from 24