The State of Food Insecurity in the World, the final UN hunger report www.fao.org/hunger/en/ in the period of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), indicates that the MDG target to halve the share of undernourished people in the world has not...

How to feed a growing world population without depleting the planet’s resources counts high among the complex challenges facing decision-makers crafting global development goals this year. In this video, Ren Wang, Assistant Director-General for Agriculture and Consumer Protection at the...

The United Nations had declared 2015 to be the International Year of Soils. In this interview, Ronald Vargas, Soils and Land Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, describes the many benefits of and threats...

The Post-2015 development agenda is a United Nations-led process aimed at helping member states define a global development framework that will succeed the 8 Millennium Development Goals when they reach their target date at the end of 2015. At the...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) broke new ground in setting global development priorities from 2000 to 2015. As the clock ticks down on the MDGs, the world community is deep in discussion over a successor global framework for the next...