The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the world’s fragilities, including the weaknesses of our food systems which exacerbate hunger, obesity, poverty, political instabilities and economic crises. To overcome common and regional challenges, the five UN regional commissions have been working jointly on devising harmonized pathways and proposing game changers that can transform food systems, reverse their current performance and improve their outcomes.
This collaboration resulted in the launch of a joint policy brief entitled Transforming Food Systems for the Food Systems Summit, held on 23 Sept…
Although the notion of a circular economy (CE) has been conceived and debated for more than half a century
(Henrysson and Nuur, 2021), it has gained considerable popularity in the lexicon of economists, ecologists and
other development thinkers over the past two decades. The increasing evidence of the existential threat of
human-induced climate change and the related imperatives of decarbonizing the global economy, have led to greater focus on strategies for a more sustainable use of the natural and environmental resource base.…
17 Mar 2021, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 12:03
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La región de América Latina y el Caribe debe aunar visiones y acudir con una sola voz a la Cumbre de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Sistemas Alimentarios, que se realizará en septiembre de este año, con el fin de poner en marcha medidas nuevas y audaces para avanzar en el logro de los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030, señalaron hoy autoridades de la ONU en la región y expertos internacionales, reunidos en el marco del Foro de los Países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible 2021.
El evento paralelo al Foro titulado “América Latina y el Caribe …