INTERNATIONAL GENEVA FOR ZERO HUNGER Soil quality can be damaged by the presence of pollutants, such as nitrogen. The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Air Convention sets targets for ammonia and nitrogen oxides and thus assists countries in avoiding crop losses.
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► 2 billion people suffer from some form of micronutrient deficiency. ► About 795 million people are undernourished globally. ► 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supports governments and development partners to design the right policies, programmes and legal frameworks that strengthen food security and nutrition. FAO promotes food and nutrition education for healthy diets through educational strategies implemented at different levels, which aim at helping people to achieve long-lasting improvements in their diets and eating.
Nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are caused by undernutrition. In 2015 UNICEF, engaged in nutrition programming in 127 countries reaching 3.2 million children under 5 years old affected by Severe Acute Malnutrition. 82% of them recovered.
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Today, more than 1/3 of food produced is not eaten. Food waste is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Through the strengthening of the cold chain post-harvest and slaughter, food waste and greenhouse gas emissions could be halved to directly help reduce world hunger. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) work provides the technical foundation for industrial and domestic cooling systems and helps improve agricultural productivity, for example through irrigation technologies and pumps.
The first 1,000 days - from pregnancy to the second birthday is a pivotal moment that determines a child's destiny. Good nutrition builds strong immune systems, supercharging. Children's chances of survival and protecting them their whole lives.
Disasters such as droughts and floods pose a major risk to food production, compounding the problems faced by the world's poorest people.
This is why we, in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, we work together to take action, to scale up what works, to encourage leadership and to ensure that nutrition reaches and remains top priority.
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) works with partners around the world, to help strengthen their capacity to make food production more resilient to hazards, to adapt farming practices to climate change, and to ensure that ecosystems are protected.
Today, 59 Countries have joined the SUN Movement, home to over 100 million stunted children. Over 2,000 civil society organisations have joined the Movement across 39 alliances.
Around 90% of the main source of global food supplies wheat, maize, rice and soybeans - comes from just a handful of countries including the EU, China, India, US, Russian Federation, and Brazil. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) uses satellite imagery combined with on-the-ground expertise to produce monthly crop monitors for the Agricultural Market Information System, an inter-agency platform to enhance food security for the G20 + seven major exporting and importing countries of agricultural commodities. By enhancing transparency in international food markets, GEO helps prevent unexpected price hikes to strengthen global food security.
Achieving universal access to safe WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) services in homes, healthcare facilities, schools and workplaces directly supports a number of targets on nutrition and health. UN Water
To feed a growing world population agriculture is increasingly knowledge-intensive. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) are working with countries to set up and implement national e-agriculture strategies and initiatives to fast forward e-agriculture in today’s knowledge economy.