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May 11, 2026 Bangladesh’s leading newspaper, Prothom Alo, reported this week about a concerning decline in child health following decades of improvement...
May 2, 2026 According to the latest Hunger Hotspots Report, 16.7 million people, or one in three citizens of Myanmar (also known as Burma), are acutely food insecure, a ...
April 19, 2026 In the weeks since Paul Ehrlich's passing away, there have been many articles about the change that have occurred since his publication of the Population Bomb, where he warned about trends in risk of f...
In his book Development as Freedom, Nobel-prize winning scholar Amartya Sen wrote that “no famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” tying that claim to the presence of elections, opposition parties, and...
Afghanistan is currently facing a severe food insecurity crisis driven by several compounding factors. According to the UNHCR, in 2025, both Pakistan and Iran tightened their migration policies, forcing large numbers of Afghan refugees to return to Afghanistan. The Pakistan–Afghanistan border...
Field Experience on the Thai–Cambodian Border, 1979 The year was 1979. In October, I braved the streets of Bangkok, Thailand at five o’clock in the morning to get on a volunteer bus bound for the Thai–Cambodian border. Our destination was Sakeo,...
Vaclav Smil has produced an increasing repertoire of books summarizing how humans consume different resources. Over four decades he has visited many topics including food availability and its constraints. His latest 2025 book, "...
Sir David Nabarro, a distinguished British physician, international civil‑servant, and global health visionary, passed away at his home on July 25, 2...
The latest edition of Science journal (by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) reports that wooden tools from a 300,000-year-old site in Gantangqing (southwest) China demonstrate the importance of plant foods in early hominin (human) diets in a subtropical environment. The jour...
In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cancelled most of its existing foreign assistance programs, including those involving overseas school feedings. These projects are referred to as "McGovern-Do...
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