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SUNS # 9246 Thursday 3 December 2020
 
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Trade : Members remain far apart on chair's questions on IUU fishing (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Members remain far apart on the questions raised by the chair of the Doha Rules negotiating body on certain issues concerning prohibitions on subsidies to IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishing, including issues concerning the IUU determination and due process, negotiators told the SUNS.

COVID-19 : An opportunity to build resilience around food systems (PRIV)
(IPS, Mbabane)
The Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) has appealed to the United Nations to educate citizens to use their roles as consumers to create a momentum for change.

COVID-19 : Securing freedom to eat (PRIV)
(IPS, Bulawayo)
For Zimbabwean organic farmer, Elizabeth Mpofu, access to healthy food is liberation.

COVID-19 : How to reap the benefits of food as medicine (PRIV)
(IPS, Bulawayo)
COVID-19 has magnified global food insecurity and is driving unhealthy eating and worsening malnutrition, food experts say.

Q&A : Next decade sufficient time for a food revolution (PRIV)
(IPS, Bonn/Bulawayo)
In March, after the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) of the United Nations activated a global corporate emergency mechanism for the first time.


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