Tag: food

The UN-brokered Black Sea Initiative, signed by Russia, Türkiye, and Ukraine, has played a crucial role in global food security by allowing millions of tonnes of food commodities to leave Ukrainian ports. As the Initiative completes one year, it has contributed to stabilizing food prices and facilitating vital food supplies to countries in need. Renewal and continued implementation of the Initiative are necessary to ensure uninterrupted food exports from Ukraine and address challenges faced in recent months.

A study led by McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences highlights the importance of consuming a combination of six key foods to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, fish, and whole-fat dairy products were found to be crucial in preventing heart attacks and strokes. The research, conducted globally, emphasizes the significance of a healthy diet and offers various options to achieve it.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidance recommending that countries implement comprehensive mandatory policies to protect children from the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages. The guidance aims to address the harmful impact of aggressive and pervasive marketing of foods high in fats, sugars, and salt (known as HFSS) to children, linked to unhealthy dietary choices.

Global challenges such as climate change, economic productivity, food and water security, and health could be overcome if countries use their natural resources more efficiently, and this is possible without sacrificing the environment or human prosperity, a new report says.

About 112.2 million people around the world were driven to hunger after 2020, compared to the previous major global food crisis (2008-2009), said a new study by CARE.

About 1.6 million people worldwide fall ill every day from eating contaminated food, which kills 4,20,000 people each year, said the United Nations as the world observed the World Food Safety DayJune 7.

In a new study, researchers said that rapid development of unexpected drought, called flash drought, could severely affect agricultural and ecological systems with ripple effects that extend even further.

With hunger spreading worldwide and tobacco responsible for eight million deaths each year, countries should stop subsidizing tobacco crops and help farmers grow food, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Around seven-in-ten of all Asian restaurants in the United States serve Chinese, Japanese and Thai foods. However, restaurants serving other types of Asian food are less widely distributed.

Conflict and violence threatens food security for 85 per cent of 258 million people in 58 countries, according to a new Action Against Hunger report.