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UN names four new World Restoration Flagships to heal degraded ecosystems
The World Restoration Flagships, spanning 18 countries, showcase large-scale efforts to revive forests, grasslands, farms and coastlines, restore biodiversity and secure…
The One Health action plan balances the health of humans, animals, plants and ecosystems
The plan aims to create a framework to integrate systems and capacity to improve prevention, prediction, detection and response to health threats.
Food insecurity rising in Africa
The continent’s farmers have to become more resilient to survive changing climate patterns and extreme weather events
International aid profits Senegal’s women
Programmes to promote gender equality and counter poverty gain ground
More people went hungry in Africa in 2017, but new initiatives also bore fruit
There were some African food security initiatives from 2017 that deserve a special mention for the precedent they set.
Big business subverts world health
UN official spells out how lobby groups stall and water down progressive regulation.