More: food security
With the Humanitarian Crisis Not Addressed, Afghanistan Braces for Another Dark Winter
Afghanistan is staring down another brutal, dark winter.
With the Taliban seemingly incapable, or unwilling, to address the dire humanitarian crisis, Afghans face an uncertain...
Catastrophic hunger recorded in Haiti for first time
An unrelenting series of crises has trapped vulnerable Haitians in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public...
World Food Day: Another year of global record hunger looms amid food and climate crisis
The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive more people into worsening...
Can Africa Prioritize And Address Its Food Security Challenges?
Global food security, especially in Africa, has been in the media publications these past few months. While a few outspoken African leaders shifted blames...
A push to ensure fresh foods end up getting tasted instead of wasted
By ANDREW DUNNE
Dr Anastasia Ktenioudaki has been tracking strawberries in Ireland with high-tech sensors. She was part of a recent European research project to reduce...
An Effort to Create A Stronger and Sustainable Food Security Using Technology
Two decades ago, the prospect of consuming lab-grown meat created from meatless ingredients might sound absurd and out of the question. But apparently, today’s...
FAO: Join forces to prevent ‘food availability crisis’
As the war in Ukraine stokes a crisis for countries who are struggling just to access the food their populations want and need, the...
Famine looms in Somalia, but many ‘hunger hotspots’ are in deep trouble
The number of people facing life-threatening levels of hunger worldwide without immediate humanitarian aid, is expected to rise steeply in coming weeks, the UN...
UN spotlights transformational potential of family farming for world food supply
A Global Forum highlighting the UN’s Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) got underway on Monday, aimed at identifying priority policies to boost support for...
Microalgae promise abundant healthy food and feed in any environment
By Sofia Strodt
Feeding a growing world population that will reach 9.8 billion by 2050, according to United Nations forecasts, and the need to conserve...