Kenya drought: Half the country to experience food insecurity till December 2021

The drought will put around 2 million people in need of assistance till December

Food and healthcare in war-torn Tigray: preliminary insights on what’s at stake

The war has put 4.5 million people, half of whom are children, in need of emergency food assistance

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

Inflation can kill Africa human development, World Bank warns

Most poverty-struck rural households in Africa spend between 57 and 59 per cent of their income on food

Poor nutrition changes the way a body fights infection: This might protect against severe COVID-19

Deficient leptin levels caused by malnutrition might protect against severe infection and death, says study

World Food Day 2019: FAO calls for healthy diets to build zero-hunger world

The United Nations body noted that people around the world were either suffering from obesity or food insecurity

Food insecurity continues to be major threat for Africa and Asia

While Asia has the highest number of undernourished, Africa is the continent with the highest prevalence of undernourishment

Almost 50% of adult South Africans are overweight or obese. Poverty and poor nutrition are largely to blame

69% of obese adults from food insecure households where families had little dietary choices

Price of urban sprawl

Urban sprawl has caused conditions of insecurity in the peri-urban areas.

These countries need urgent action to beat famine, deaths in the next 4 months: FAO

Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan, northern Nigeria and Yemen are in need of urgent targeted humanitarian action 

Civil societies urges governments of India and Nepal to end blockade

A blockade on indispensable fuel and other essentials imported from India has now entered its third month

Less than half of hunger funding needs met, says report

Countries experiencing the worst hunger crisis received less hunger funding

Most number of people in need of aid in Ethiopia, Yemen, DRC & Afghanistan in 2021

Need for humanitarian aid reached an all-time high during January 2018-December 2021

Is eastern Africa’s drought the worst in recent history? And are worse yet to come?

Human-induced warming has raised the temperature of the western Pacific Ocean

How poverty and violence are linked with anxiety in young South Africans

More than 8% reported anxiety disorder in the past year in South Africa

Horn of Africa braces for hunger season

At present, about 12 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are in need of food assistance

Investment in technology must to achieve zero hunger

FAO estimates that the world will need to produce some 60 per cent more food, on an average, to feed a hungry world by 2050

Dryland fisheries in Africa can punch in nutrition, end hunger

A report documents the resilience of fish resources to climatic variability in sub-Saharan Africa and the underestimation of fish and fisheries …

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global hunger hotspots: UN report

Conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks driving communities into crisis; Sudan conflict can impact several neighbouring countries

Food crisis: Food-insecure population doubled in 2 years, says UN Secretary-General

Agencies call upon countries to increase food production and not to stop export as the Russia-Ukraine war rages on  

In Africa, 64% more people became food-insecure in last five years: Report

The global burden of food insecurity also shifted towards Africa; COVID-19 expected to make matters worse

Thousands may face starvation from February to May in ‘hunger hotspots‘: UN agencies

Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen are on the highest alert

War in Sudan enters its breadbasket, threatens to worsen hunger, malnutrition

A third of Sudanese in need of emergency food aid; country faces the greatest displacement crisis in history

Increasing meat consumption has put intense pressure on land: UNCCD

If it is reduced, there would be a significant impact on human health and climate change mitigation

Niger is Africa’s fastest growing country — how to feed 25 million more people in 30 years

Reducing population growth rate and investments in women’s education & labour force participation among other steps needed