‘Growing alarm’ over Fall Armyworm advance, with cash crops ‘under attack’ across Asia

20 March 2019
Economic Development
FAO/Lesotho/Lechoko Noko

The Fall Armyworm pest is continuing to sweep across the globe, having moved eastwards from their native Americas, onto Africa, before arriving in Asia only last summer, where they now threaten to cost farmers from India to Thailand, billions of dollars in lost production. 

Global South cooperation ‘vital’ to climate change fight, development, Guterres tells historic Buenos Aires summit

UN allocates $20 million in emergency funding, as Cyclone Idai disaster unfolds

Venezuela: ‘A worrying destabilizing factor in the region’, Bachelet tells Human Rights Council

UN court increases sentence of former Bosnian-Serb leader to life imprisonment

Libya stands at a ‘critical juncture’, UN mission head tells Security Council

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UN launches ‘South-South Galaxy’ knowledge-sharing platform in Buenos Aires

Economic Development

When countries of the Global South forged an historic technical cooperation deal among themselves 40 years ago, digital technology was a thing of the future, but developing nations have come a long way since then.

WFP/Deborah Nguyen

Cyclone Idai: emergency getting ‘bigger by the hour’, warns UN food agency

Humanitarian Aid

The full scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai in south-west Africa is becoming clearer, the UN said on Tuesday, warning that the emergency “is getting bigger by the hour”.

UN Environment/ Hannah McNeish

Safe drinking water, sanitation, are ‘basic human rights’: new UN Water Development report

SDGs

Safe water and access to proper sanitation are essential to eradicate poverty, build peaceful societies and ensure that no one is left behind on the path towards sustainable development, according to the 2019 UN World Water Development Report, launched on Tuesday in Geneva. 

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First peaceful transfer of power in DR Congo ‘an extraordinary opportunity’ for advancing rights

Human Rights

The election of President Felix Tshisekedi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), marks “an extraordinary opportunity” for the country to advance civil and political rights, said a senior UN official, on Tuesday at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

©FAO/Wang Jinbiao

What is ‘South-South cooperation’ and why does it matter?

Economic Development

This week in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, over one thousand people, including high level government delegations and representatives from the private sector and civil society, will gather for the Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation, or BAPA+40.

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