Nutrition and dwindling natural resources on April 1, 2018All United Nations member countries have committed themselves to eradicate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.This was a bold and ambitious move, but it seemed achievable after decades of declines in the number of hungry people worldwide. Here in the Asia-Pacific region, we saw some of the most impressive declines until just […]
Producing and consuming nutritious foods with dwindling natural resources on March 30, 2018All United Nations member countries have committed themselves to eradicate hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. This was a bold and ambitious move but it seemed achievable after decades of declines in the number of hungry people worldwide. Here in the Asia-Pacific region we saw some of the most impressive declines until […]
Ending illegal fishing on May 31, 2017We are about to celebrate the first anniversary of the entry into force of the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), the world’s first binding international treaty aimed at combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU Fishing). This illegal modality accounts for around one-sixth of all fish caught in the oceans, and […]