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Agriculture data monitoring system and tool, CropWatch, set to help developing countries tackle COVID-19 impacts and food insecurity.

Written byShamika N. Sirimanne, Director of UNCTAD’s Division on Technology and Logistics

UNCTAD and IMO call on governments to work together to facilitate crew changeover and remove unnecessary regulatory obstacles to maritime transport during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

Well-functioning transit transport services and procedures are essential to ensure people in landlocked developing countries have timely access to medical products and basic goods during and after the crisis.

International collaboration in science, technology and innovation are pegged to drive sustainable development, but policy needs to ensure this is so.

The increasingly unsustainable use of marine resources for economic activities has hurt the health of our oceans, seas and coasts. Governments and businesses have the opportunity to turn the tide and make blue economy sectors more "green" in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

Written by Robert Hamwey, Economist, and Tim Sullivan, Public Information Officer, UNCTAD

Written byFeng Zhang, Biochemist with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

A small business making natural products from jujube and tamarind has kept its doors open and workers safe thanks to sustainability principles adopted before the pandemic.

Written by Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director of International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD