World News in Brief: Water ‘being taken for granted’, global teacher crisis, Nipah in India update

While some 2.4 billion people live in countries where the supply of water is limited, global water demand for agriculture is expected to increase by 35 per cent up to 2050, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.

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World News in Brief: Water ‘being taken for granted’, global teacher crisis, Nipah in India update

04 Oct 2023

FAO ramps up support to Sudan farmers as starvation threat grows in East Africa

31 May 2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is scaling up operations in Sudan, where 10.9 million people, 30 per cent of the population, are expected to need lifesaving support this year – the highest number in the past decade, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

FAO warns 90 per cent of Earth’s topsoil at risk by 2050

27 Jul 2022

A full 90 per cent of the Earth’s precious topsoil is likely to be at risk by 2050, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.