The UN World Food Programme on Monday pledged $253 million to fund a five-year plan to end hunger in Zimbabwe, which is emerging from a devastating drought that left more than 4 million people in need of food aid last year.
Author: WHES Team
Portland’s new strategy to fight hunger: Help people to grow their food
To put a dent in the region’s burgeoning food insecurity problem, the organization that manages Portland’s community gardens is giving preference to low-income Portlanders and enlisted high school students to go door to door to recruit farmers.
Hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram
Already a huge and chronic problem in Nigeria, malaria soars during conflict and natural disasters.
How is famine declared?
The UN relies on technocratic calculations but politics still plays a part.
Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere
More than 130,000 people have amassed along this desert highway outside Diffa, Niger — National Route 1. They now call its barren, sandy shoulders home.
Nobody Wants To Drop Food From A Plane. But It’s Happening
Air drops of food, seen by the development community as a last resort, are going on in South Sudan.
Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4
For the first time since anyone can remember, there is a very real possibility of four famines — in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen — breaking out at once, endangering more than 20 million.
Bill Gates: Cutting Foreign Aid Makes America Less Safe
Opinion Editorial by Bill Gates on foreign aid
U.N.’s Famine Appeal Is Billions Shy of Goal
UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned 20 million people would fall into famine if his aid agencies could not corral $4.4 billion by the end of March. So far, the UNs has received less than a tenth of the money.
Global Food Policy Report 2017
This report is a review of major developments in food and nutrition policy around the globe, featuring an in-depth look at the impact of rapid urbanization.
