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One-Third of World's Food Wasted Annually: UNOne-third of the world's food is wasted annually, amounting to some 1.3 billion tonnes each year, according to a UN report released here Thursday.The waste is causing economic losses of $750 billion and significant damage ...
- About 130 Countries Support India's UN Resolution on Yoga
In an overwhelming response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for commemorating an International Day of Yoga, about 130 countries have joined as co-sponsors to an India-led UN General Assembly resolution recognising yoga's benefits.The draft ...
- Indian Council of Medical Research Will Implement UN Standards On Clinical Trials
The signatories to the statement also agreed to monitor compliance with registration requirements and to endorse the development of systems to monitor results reporting.
- UN: Hunger can be eradicated in Africa by 2025
Eradicating hunger in Africa by 2025 is achievable -- if Africa's leaders champion it and promote improved crop production and healthy eating, the head of the U.N. food and agriculture agency said Friday.Jose Graziano da ...
- UN Urges Action to Fix 'Broken' World Food System
The United Nations urged political leaders from around the world on Wednesday to up their game in the fight to wipe out malnutrition, a global scourge which afflicts poor and rich alike. "Part of our ...
- UN Cancer Agency IARC Sees a Risk in Five Pesticides
The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said Friday that three pesticides were "probably" carcinogenic and two others, which have already been outlawed or restricted, were "possibly" so.
- Yoga Does Not Discriminate, It Brings Satisfaction: UN Chief
Emphasizing that yoga does not discriminate, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he discovered the "simple sense of satisfaction" it brings when he tried his first "asana" during his visit to India.
- 30,000 Expected at New York's International Yoga Day Celebration
More than 30,000 people are expected to participate in a mass demonstration of the ancient art in the city's Times Square after global leaders and diplomats from around the world launch the observance at the ...
- Supermarket Demands Fuelling Food Waste Crisis: UN
Supermarket obsession with perfect looking produce and the use of arbitrary "best before" labels are causing massive food waste that if reversed could feed the world's hungry, a UN panel said Thursday.
- World Food Prices Fall in 2016 for Fifth Straight Year - UN FAO
The full year 2016 logged a 1.5 percent annual drop in the index
