The UN Joint SDG Fund announced on Monday an additional $54.5 million in investments for projects across five countries, to try and get the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on track.

Experts, policymakers, and administrators from four councils as well as Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of Niger State have evolved new strategies to strengthen rural-urban linkages. The stakeholders met as part of implementing the UN Development Account (UNDA) funded project “Leaving No Place Behind – Strengthening Urban-Rural Linkages in selected countries [...]

Forty years ago, Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, known as Pati, left the Mexican city of Querétaro with her family in search of a simple rural life. Instead, she ended up leading and inspiring a group of some 17,000 local environmental activists, devoted to protecting the remote and beautiful Sierra Gorda. [...]

EUROsociAL+, the European Union’s cooperation programme with Latin America, is organising this regional meeting – through its Democratic Governance area – after four years of implementation, with a view to the sustainable recovery of the region based on social cohesion and good governance. Transparency, taxation, access to justice and territorial development [...]

This debate started before 2015, the year in which the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted as successors to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed in 2000. The 8 MDGs were expanded to 17 massive goals and 169 targets.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is convening a virtual forum of world leaders from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in a major push forward to help its Members regain their momentum toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), badly affected by the global pandemic, ongoing [...]

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for greater collective efforts to achieve all the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by transforming the current food systems.

Ambitious plans to help small, medium and large cities become greener, cleaner and integrated into sustainable agri-food systems

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2021 — To improve the incomes and resilience of communities in rural areas, the World Bank approved today a $150 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA)* in support of the first phase of Mozambique’s Sustainable Rural Economy Program. To start, this first phase of a [...]

In his undisputable portrait of world hunger, the writer Martín Caparrós asked the question: “(…) how to fight against the degradation of words? The words "millions-of-people-go-hungry" should mean something, cause something, produce certain reactions. But, in general, words no longer cause these reactions. Something would happen, perhaps, if we could [...]