FAO's Food Price Index tracks five commodity groups. Experts say food distribution is a worry even if supplies are plentiful.
A key index of monthly prices for food commodities shows a 13.7% year-on-year drop from the spike that began with Russia's war in Ukraine.
The index for 2023 was 13.7 percent lower than the average value from the preceding year, but sugar and rice prices rose during that time, the Food and Agriculture Organization reported on Friday.
A proposed 2% minimum tax on billionaires will be taken up at Brazil's G-20 Leaders' Summit in November.
The effects of climate change hit hard from the bombed streets of Gaza to the glitzy venues of the Paris Olympics.
The U.N.'s annual report card shows the Sustainable Development Goals improved from 85% off track last year.
Developing nations' 30% share of global public debt in 2023, particularly in Asia and Oceania, rose from 16% in 2010.
The Court of Justice of the European Union's rulings in two landmark cases will cost the tech giants billions of euros.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
