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One-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 ...

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 ...

The signatories to the statement also agreed to monitor compliance with registration requirements and to endorse the development of systems to monitor results reporting.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 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.

The full year 2016 logged a 1.5 percent annual drop in the index