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The message is not new, but the figures are now up-to-date again: Global hunger remains scandalously high and there has been hardly any progress over the past years. Hunger levels are serious or alarming in 42 countries across the global. In total, 733 million people lack access to sufficient calories. In some countries, more than […]

Our planet is in bad shape and the risk is increasing that the stability and resilience of the Earth system could soon be compromised. For this reason, scientists will from now on give “patient Earth” an annual health check in order to keep an eye on the situation, develop treatment options and identify the underlying

We have already reached Earth Overshoot Day this year: August 1st marks the date by which humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services has exceeded what Earth can regenerate in 2024. For the rest of the year, we will be living on resources borrowed from future generations. This is the sad message spread by the

The number of people suffering from undernourishment globally remains scandalously high, pushing the world far off track to meet the goal of eliminating hunger and malnutrition. According to a report released on July 24th by five UN agencies, around 733 million people worldwide were chronically undernourished in 2023. This is around 152 million people more

A new wave of land grabbing, a surge in green grabs for carbon schemes, the rising loss of farmland to mining, urbanization and mega-developments, as well as the loss of control over food production and land use are putting enormous pressures on farmland and small-scale food producers, a new IPES-Food report has revealed. These pressures

The global organic farming area increased by over 20 million hectares or 26.6 % between 2021 and 2022 and grew more than ever before. Around 96 million hectares of land were farmed organically in 2022, according to a new report published by FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International. The number of organic farmers also rose

On December 13th, after two weeks of lengthy negotiations, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) came to a close with an agreement. COP28 President Dr. Sultan Al Jaber praised the “historic achievement” of the conference, exhausted delegates and observers issued their first statements before heading back home and journalists weighed up the strengths and

Global hunger remains too high, and progress in reducing hunger has largely stalled. The combined effects of several crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, economic stagnation, the impacts of climate change, and war and conflicts in many countries of the world, have led to a cost-of-living crisis and worsened the situation for

Human activities have destabilized biophysical systems and processes that regulate the functioning of life support systems on Earth, pushing the planet beyond a “safe” zone, scientists have warned. According to a study, published on September 13th in the journal “Science Advances“, six of nine planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity have

We have already reached Earth Overshoot Day this year: August 2nd marks the date by which humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services has exceeded what Earth can regenerate in 2023. For the rest of the year, we will be living on resources borrowed from future generations. This is the sad message spread by the