More: food security
Table for 10 Billion? Leaders to Unlock More Sustainable and Equitable Food Future
The COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated vulnerabilities in food systems – highlighting the insecurity of rural livelihoods, the tragedy of food waste, and stark inequities...
A deep dive into Zero Hunger: farming the seas
With the world population expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050, food production will need to keep pace, and experts believe the Ocean...
A deep dive into Zero Hunger: The seaweed revolution
If just two per cent of the Ocean were to be sustainably farmed, the world could easily be fed, according to experts. In the...
COVID-19 worsening food insecurity, driving displacement
Global hunger and population displacement, which were already at record levels when COVID-19 struck, could “surge” as migrants and those reliant on a dwindling...
Aid agencies call for urgent action to prevent famine in hunger hotspots
People in four food insecurity “hotspots” inside Burkina Faso, northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, need help urgently to avoid sliding into famine, UN...
New Funding to Improve Food Systems Will Help Prevent Zoonotic Diseases
Germany became the first donor today to invest in Food Systems 2030, a new World Bank Multi-Donor Trust Fund that proposes to help countries...
Burkina Faso ‘one step short of famine’
Unless access is urgently granted to humanitarian organizations, thousands in the Central Sahel will be “pushed into further destitution”, the UN emergency food relief agency warned on Monday.
Ahead of Tuesday’s High-Level Ministerial Conference on the...
Eating better – for us and the planet
Industrialized farming has been a reliable way to produce lots of food, at a relatively low cost. But it’s not the bargain it was...
Starvation used as weapon of war in South Sudan conflict
Starvation is being intentionally used as a war tactic in South Sudan’s brutal conflict, a UN-backed human rights panel said on Tuesday, releasing its...
Violence leaves more than 300,000 ‘completely reliant’ on assistance in northern Mozambique
Worsening conflict, combined with a precarious humanitarian situation, has forced more than 300,000 people to flee their homes and villages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province,...