Internally displaced continue to be among the most vulnerable in Somalia as a drastic increase in displacement this year due to drought is putting additional strain on scarce resources in existing and new internal displaced settlements, the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says.

About 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the “Gift of the Nile." Today, urban sprawl and changing agricultural practices - due in part to Egypt’s Aswan Dam that allows for year-long irrigation - have caused groundwater problems along the Nile.

Kenya has been ravaged by what the United Nations calls the worst drought since the 2011 Horn of Africa food crisis that led to famine in parts of Somalia. The number of children in need of life-saving aid continues to grow amid one of most punishing droughts in years.

Extra farmland more than one and a half times the size of London will have to be cultivated to grow the food needed for the capital’s booming population by 2031, according to new analysis. The figures reveal the huge resources that will be necessary.

Senior government officials from across Asia have been meeting in Bangkok in the first-ever Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment to answer this question: how can we use our resources more efficiently to continue to grow our economies in a manner that does not tax our natural environment?

The Brazilian president Michel Temer has abolished an Amazonian reserve the size of Denmark, prompting concerns of an influx of mineral companies, road-builders and workers into the species-rich forest. The dissolution of the Renca reserve was opposed by the Sustainability Network party.

Toxins from manure and fertiliser pouring into waterways are exacerbating huge, harmful algal blooms that create oxygen-deprived stretches of the gulf, the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay, according to a new report by Mighty, an environmental group chaired by former congressman Henry Waxman.

Mongolia has suspended grain exports with as much as a third of its farmland suffering from severe drought after temperatures last month rose to the highest in more than half a century, agricultural officials said.

The weather has always been an unpredictable element of agriculture, but climate change is expected to make matters significantly worse. A new study says climate-induced drought could hit several of the world's major corn producing regions all at once.

Significant progress has been achieved in reducing the impacts of waste generation on the environment and human health. The challenge for the future is both continuing this progress especially related to the relatively high amounts of untreated waste still landfilled in many EU Member States.

Claire Perry, Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry said: “Since 1990 we have cut emissions by more than a third while growing the economy by two thirds, and the Government is determined to drive up the pace of decarbonisation while maximising the opportunities for growth from the global transition to a clean economy.”

The European Commission is hosting a workshop on sustainable urban strategies as part of Regions and Cities European Week, on 11th October 2017, in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop focuses on the question, ‘How can we set long-term sustainable urban strategies within the framework of short-term political cycles?’

UK government recommendations on nutrition have been fairly constant over the years. The only recent significant changes were in 2015 when maximum sugar recommendations were halved and fibre ones increased. Those changes were made following a thorough analysis of hundreds of high-quality studies.

The Commission is seeking views on how the EU's food supply chain could be made fairer for farmers and small businesses and how unfair trading practices could be addressed. Stakeholders have until 17 November to contribute to the online public consultation.

Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says strengthened partnerships are crucial to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030. The Minister said key to the attainment of the SDGs is financing water security.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced 32 grants totaling $16.8 million to help Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants increase their purchases of fruits and vegetables.

Smart farming lets farmers tailor the use of fertiliser, pesticides, fodder and water to their specific crops and livestock. This helps to lower the environmental impact of agriculture, while increasing farms’ competitiveness. Smart farming also creates new business opportunities.

In September 2013, the Parliament of India passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA) that made ‘right to food’ a legal entitlement for approximately three-quarters of the rural population and half of the urban population of India. A first evaluation of the impact of NFSA.

An EU-funded project has developed new modelling tools to better forecast the impact of extreme weather on agricultural production in Europe and beyond - important for protecting the global food supply.

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has been active in the region since 2010. A new publication captures a wide spectrum of stories within the domains of climate change, agriculture and food security.

At the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) first Sustainable Development Impact Summit last week in New York, several of the discussions focused on how today's tech revolution - the so called Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) - can create a better, cleaner and safer world.

On the occasion of the International Symposium on Food Security and Nutrition in the Age of Climate Change, they have signed an agreement with the overall goal of strengthening capacities for improving food security and nutrition through mitigation and adaptation to changing climatic conditions.

During a High-level Event held on the margins of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly, the heads of FAO, IFAD, WFP and other partners have urged the international community to renew its commitment towards reducing food waste.

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition.

The world is facing one of its largest humanitarian crises since 1945 with millions of people facing the threat of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria. This number is expected to further increase, according to a report by the Global Network against Food Crises.

“None should imagine that the state of sanitation and coral reefs are anything but directly connected,” Mr. Thomson said, delivering the keynote address at special event in Stockholm to start World Water Week. “It makes no sense to consider terrestrial environmental issues, fresh water challenges or climate change in isolation.”

After one of the wettest winters on record, Governor Jerry Brown announced in April that the drought had ended. But situation remains grim, says Rios, 80, who lives in rural Madera County in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

The World Bank is providing financing for water-scarce cities to share their management knowledge, while the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has set up a public-private partnership to improve industrial and municipal water management practices.

The estimated cost for achieving SDGs them is $5-7 trillion per year. The UN called on a powerful private sector tool to step up to ensure that they can be implemented: it’s the capital market finance. How can the capital markets be engaged? What kind of capital is needed to achieve zero hunger? And which categories of investors are best placed to provide it?

Agriculture is expected to face increasing water risks that can be mitigated with targeted policy actions on water hotspots. This report presents a mitigation policy action plan. The People’s Republic of China, India and the United States are identified as countries facing the greatest water risks for agriculture production globally.

How to overcome market failures was once the key question underlying development research. A primary conclusion of this research was that governments had to step in to resolve these market failures, for example by providing free public services or protecting infant industries.

While hunger and malnutrition are still clearly major problems in Africa, research from the Malabo Montpellier Panel shows that several countries are starting to win the battle for better nutrition outcomes.

This year’s edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World marks the beginning of a new era in monitoring the progress made towards achieving a world without hunger and malnutrition, within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A new study outlines the serious toll that poor nutrition can have on our well-being, and in some cases that even means death. In fact, about one in five deaths around the world in 2016 can be attributed to poor diet, making this one of the biggest killers, according to the study, “The Global Burden of Disease.”

Researchers spent six years developing a heating device capable of heating the ocean. Their findings were released in the journal Current Biology, and suggest that even this tiny shift could have a big impact on the local ecosystem.

This book is devoted to the complex relationship between the global trading system and food security, focusing on two important elements: the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) and how food price volatility can be managed, or not, through trade instruments.

Harmful algal blooms known to pose risks to human and environmental health in large freshwater reservoirs and lakes are projected to increase because of climate change, according to a team of researchers led by a Tufts University scientist.

If we do nothing, growing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide from emissions will seriously impair the nutritional value of wheat, rice and other staple crops, putting millions of people around the world in danger of protein deficiency, according to new research published in the journal in Environmental Health Perspectives.

A detailed report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine is winning alarmed attention in Washington because it finds that American children and adults are leading the obesity parade.