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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a “Global Food Security Call to Action” meeting of foreign ministers at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 18, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

U.N. chief in talks on restoring Ukraine grain exports

Contact made amid global food crisis

By GFM Network News May 18, 2022

United Nations | Reuters — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he is in “intense contact” with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States and the European Union in an effort to restore Ukrainian grain export as a global food crisis worsens. “I am hopeful, but there is still a way to go,” said

CBOT July 2022 soft red winter wheat (candlesticks) with 20-day moving average (green line), MGEX July 2022 spring wheat (yellow line) and K.C. July 2022 hard red winter wheat (orange line). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat futures slide on Russian crop exports, U.N. grain talks

Soybeans, corn also pull back on wheat pressure, profit-taking

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 18, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell sharply on Wednesday following a report about United Nations efforts to restore Ukraine grain shipments and as forecasts of ample Russian supplies added to the impact on sentiment of expectations high prices will curb demand. Corn and soybean futures also slid as falling wheat prices led profit-taking,

Nearly half of the world’s land area is now taken up by agriculture, which has seen swathes of forest cleared for livestock rangeland and crop fields.

News

UN report highlights land use trends and costs of degradation

Restoration efforts would be costly, but a good investment, authors say

By Gloria Dickie May 9, 2022

Reuters – Decades of deforestation, mining and industrial pollution have taken a toll on the planet, leaving as much as 40 per cent of its land degraded and putting economies at risk, a UN report says. Nearly half of the world’s land area is now taken up by agriculture, which has seen swathes of forest

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Saving the planet, one bite at a time

The latest climate change report from the UN has taken a welcome optimistic tone

By Sylvain Charlebois April 20, 2022

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now provided the world with a road map to saving the planet. For global food security, we must become better environmental stewards, and to reduce gas emissions, we need to adhere to sustainable agricultural practices in order to meet our 2030 targets, according to the

The United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in Manhattan. (BWZenith/iStock/Getty Images)

Weather

Food, farming, forestry must be transformed to curb global warming, UN says

Earlier draft of panel report called for reduced intake of meat

By GFM Network News, Leah Douglas April 6, 2022

Reuters — Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations’ climate panel. But the changes are unlikely to happen unless governments act to spur them along, the report from the Intergovernmental

A drone photo from the Sampona commune of Madagascar on Feb. 11, 2022, shows Zebu cattle drinking water from a large puddle created from Cyclone Batsirai. The island nation’s south has been experiencing severe drought for the past four years, putting it in danger of what the World Food Programme calls “the world’s first climate change famine.” (Photo: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis)

Weather

U.N. to roll out global early-warning systems for extreme weather

By GFM Network News, Gloria Dickie March 24, 2022

London | Reuters –– With climate change fueling dangerous weather worldwide, the United Nations is pledging that early-warning weather monitoring will cover everyone on the planet in five years. “Half of humanity is already in the danger zone,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier this week. And yet, “one-third of the world’s people, mainly in

A tractor participates in a demonstration by members of Mier Ukrajine (Peace for Ukraine) in front of the Russian embassy in Bratislava on March 16, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Radovan Stoklasa)

Crops, Markets

Ukraine war already impacting food security, U.N. agency warns

By GFM Network News, Maytaal Angel March 18, 2022

London | Reuters — The war in Ukraine is already resulting in rising food prices and a shortage of staple crops in parts of central Asia, the Middle East and north Africa, the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said on Thursday. The Russian invasion of Ukraine last month has severely curtailed shipments

News

Richest 20 nations urged to lead on nature protection with more finance

UN report finds wealthiest nations aren’t leading on this important issue

By Michael Taylor February 3, 2022

Thomson Reuters Foundation – The world’s 20 richest nations should more than double their annual spending to protect and restore nature to $285 billion by 2050, the United Nations and donors said on Jan. 27, calling for private and overseas investments to be ramped up too. In a first joint report on finance for nature

“If you don’t have observations, then you are not able to provide good forecasts.” – WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas.

News, Other

Climate change extremes spur UN plan to fund weather forecasting

Large weather data gaps exist around the world, particularly in poorer nations

By Andrea Januta, Kanupriya Kapoor, Katy Daigle November 17, 2021

Reuters – As climate change triggers deadly heat waves, droughts and floods, three UN agencies will roll out funding plans to improve weather forecasting in vulnerable countries. The initiative, announced at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, aims to plug gaps in weather monitoring and data collection so developing countries can better prepare for possible

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).

News, Other

COP26: Nations make new pledges to cut methane, save forests at climate summit

Dozens of countries join U.S.-led methane reduction effort, over 100 leaders pledge to halt deforestation by 2030

By Jake Spring, Jeff Mason November 16, 2021

Reuters – Leaders at the COP26 climate conference have pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decade and cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to help slow climate change. In the early days of the two-week summit in Glasgow, Scotland, wealthy nations took some overdue actions to provide long-promised financial help

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Wheat sets fresh eight-week low as ample global supply continues to weigh

Larger Canadian canola and wheat ending stocks expected

‘A little bit of a resurgence for flax’

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