Around 52 million people in west, central Africa will face severe food stress from June-August: IRC

More than 2,500 people to face catastrophic, famine-like conditions if no urgent action is taken, organisation warns

Starvation as geopolitical tool has travelled through time. Literature shows oppressors knew what they were doing

Early modern English literature is replete with tales of famine distress & even solutions, but doesn’t reflect on the British stance on …

Podcast: Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression

Before the colonialists arrived in North America and Bengal, both regions were thriving with healthy, wealthy communities. Here's what happened next

Children don’t even have energy to cry: Gaza Strip stares at famine as Israel blocks food access

Malnutrition in northern Gaza rose from 0.8% of children under 5 years before the conflict began to over 16% at present

Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues

Over 300,000 people in Somalia may be in famine by December

Locust invasion

SOMALIA

Ethiopia

Somalia on verge of being hit by famine

About 250,000 people had died in the famine that hit the Horn of Africa in 2011

FAO

NORTH KOREA

Somalia: Drought forced more than 450,000 people from their homes this year

Around 1.4 million children could be acutely malnourished by mid-year

Quarter of a billion people are facing acute hunger: Report

Key drivers of this crisis were economic shocks, conflicts & climate extremes

Green sees red

Close to famine

ETHIOPIA

In Yemen, seven million people on the brink of famine: FAO Director-General

About 17 million people, two-thirds of the population, are severely food insecure 

NORTH KOREA

Bunnies to the rescue

Success in a fistful of rice

Women come to the rescue of a village burdened by drought

UNITED NATIONS

From the blurbs

Human induced Famine

Official negligence turns a dry spell into a famine

From the Andes to the stars

Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram