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Business
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Economy
9/21/2022 5:09:51 PM
The Federal Reserve is expected to produce another big increase in interest rates in the second day of deliberations to tamp down the highest inflation in 40 years, while President Joe Biden announced Wednesday another $2.9 billion for a fund to help resolve global food insecurity.
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World
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International
9/21/2022 12:04:12 AM
World leaders called Tuesday for urgent efforts to address global food insecurity, with fears mounting of a disastrous harvest next year due largely to the war in Ukraine.
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Business
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Economy
5/25/2022 3:36:08 PM
Soaring inflation. Russia's war in Ukraine. Squeezed supply chains. The threat of food insecurity around the world. The lingering COVID-19 pandemic.
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World
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Africa
5/25/2022 3:07:00 PM
"This year’s theme, focused on the importance of addressing malnutrition and food insecurity, is important. Across the continent, Africa faces stark development challenges, including food insecurity and increasing malnutrition," the president of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, said.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/12/2022 4:40:06 PM
The European Commission proposed helping Ukraine export its wheat and other grains by rail, road and river to get around a Russian blockade of Black Sea ports, which is preventing those critical supplies from reaching parts of the world at risk of food insecurity.
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World
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International
4/19/2022 1:01:06 PM
Global finance leaders are putting the growing crisis over food insecurity and skyrocketing food prices at center stage as members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank meet in Washington and grapple with the brutal effects of Russia's war against Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
4/13/2022 7:59:53 PM
Major international organizations issued an appeal Wednesday for urgent measures to deal with rising food insecurity in poor countries, including financing to support farmers and increase food supplies.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
3/29/2022 7:21:27 PM
A foreign war has exposed Africa’s chronic dependence on food imports and galvanised action to address the nexus between conflict, food insecurity, and climate change on the continent, write Patrick Verkooijen, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, and Akinwumi Adesinai
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Opinion
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2/6/2022 11:37:00 AM
The future of food seems more and more uncertain in the Near East and North Africa (NENA region), as it faces growing food insecurity and malnutrition.
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World
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International
11/14/2021 3:26:06 PM
It's a hidden crisis that has existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many of 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families.
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World
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International
10/25/2021 10:59:14 AM
More than 22 million Afghans will suffer "acute food insecurity" this winter, UN agencies said Monday, warning the already unstable country faces one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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World
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International
10/6/2021 4:56:46 PM
More than 3.8 million Afghans received food assistance in September after aid agencies scaled up response to the rising food insecurity in the Asian country, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
10/3/2021 8:02:00 PM
The United Nations on Sunday warned that the Tillaberi region of western Niger was facing a "major food crisis", with almost 600,000 people exposed to food insecurity.
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World
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Region
9/23/2021 10:50:49 AM
The head of the UN food agency is warning that 16 million people in Yemen 'are marching towards starvation' and says food rations for millions will be cut in October unless new funding arrives
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World
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Africa
7/23/2021 4:55:19 PM
The UN's World Food Programme called for unimpeded access into Tigray to reach the four million people facing acute food insecurity and needing emergency assistance
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World
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Region
3/25/2021 8:05:53 PM
The funds from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) would help support efforts by the Catholic Relief Services in healthcare facilities as well as address food insecurity
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World
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Africa
11/18/2020 12:57:18 PM
A Humanitarian Preparedness Plan targeting 1.98 million people with multi-sector assistance in the Tigray, Afar and Amhara regions has been finalized, OCHA said
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World
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Region
9/5/2020 9:08:33 AM
The people of Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan are again facing the specter of heightened food insecurity and potentially famine, said Guterres
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World
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International
5/5/2017 12:48:53 PM
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Business
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Economy
9/29/2014 4:37:13 PM
Armed conflicts in the Middle East have resulted in a considerable increase in the number of undernourished people in the region
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