World Food Programme to close office in southern Africa after Trump aid cuts
UN food agency received half its budget from US last year and is accelerating merger plan as a result of funding cuts The UN’s World...
Category : Food security
King asks Moroccans not to kill sheep for Eid al-Adha as drought reduces herds
First such request in 29 years blames economic hardship and climate crisis for high livestock prices and shortages King Mohammed VI has urged his fellow...
Almost two dozen countries at high risk of acute hunger, UN report reveals
Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Palestine and Haiti rated at level of highest concern in latest six-monthly analysis Acute food insecurity is expected to worsen in...
Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN
Annual report says climate crisis, conflict and economic shocks leave the global food system ‘disastrously vulnerable’ Africa will overtake Asia as the continent with the...
Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation
MSF says it is overwhelmed in country where 31.8 million people are suffering from hunger An unprecedented number of children in northern Nigeria are suffering...
Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns
Poverty reduction drive all but halted across many nations as Bank calls for more money to tackle a ‘great reversal’ Larry Elliott: At last G20...
We must act on Ethiopia food crisis, says UK minister
Andrew Mitchell warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ triggered by El Niño-driven drought and conflict The risk of a humanitarian catastrophe in northern Ethiopia is growing, Andrew...
‘Corruption is not an African issue’: bank chief says it’s time to believe in the continent’s future
In an exclusive interview, Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank and ‘optimist-in-chief’, says the outlook is good for a continent with both the...
‘Dire crisis for children’ in Sudan, aid groups warn as millions more go hungry
Up to 17,000 more children a day lack food, Save the Children say, as global indifference to humanitarian crisis condemned as ‘racist’ The past four...
Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert
Water scarcity threatening agriculture faster than expected, warns Cop15 desertification president The world is likely to face major disruption to food supplies well before temperatures...
