Brazil’s ambassador to the WTO Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota, pictured at other recent multilateral discussions in Geneva, said that while his country’s proposal had failed to reach a consensus at the WTO’s general council, it had at least put agriculture talks back on the radar. (WIPO/Berrod)

🐄Brazil ambassador: ‘Countries are prioritising food sovereignty, and not liberalisation’. After agricultural trade talks fail at the WTO, Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota tells Geneva Solutions why he thinks there’s still hope to carve a new path forward for the negotiations.

💥Russian attacks kill 4, injure 17 across Ukraine, hit Swiss NGO office in Kharkiv. The office of Geneva-based Swiss Foundation for Mine Action was hit Wednesday morning

🎣Fishing treaty fails at WTO, prompting US, Chinese concern. Talks at the World Trade Organization to reduce subsidies and that would allow fish stocks to recover, came to a halt, to the dismay of China and environmental groups.

📉Progress in ending world hunger set back by global crises. A joint UN agency report found that more than half of people facing hunger globally are in Africa, but said that overall stunting was down and breastfeeding rates up.