Over two million people in Afghanistan are expected to become severely food insecure in the coming months and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in order to survive, according to the United Nations. The North and West regions are estimated to be particularly at risk due to lack of snow and rainfall leading to dried up water points.
Author: Sarah Polaski
Revealing Food’s Hidden Costs: New Framework for Food and Agriculture
A new report released today offers a ground-breaking platform to evaluate the real costs and benefits—including environmental, health, and social impacts—of our agriculture and food systems.
The miller’s tale: poverty, obesity and the 45p loaf
The UK’s public health epidemic is forcing a rethink on how low-income families can enjoy a better diet. At age five, UK children in poor households are twice as likely to be obese as those in richer ones. By age 11, they are three times as likely to be obese,
A Grass-Roots Effort To Feed The Poor Is Growing, Burrito By Burrito
The Burrito Project in San Francisco, an informal charity that makes and distributes about 500 burritos to the homeless once a month. On May 21, the group celebrated its second anniversary and rolled its 10,000th burrito.
Overfished: In Senegal, empty nets lead to hunger and violence
Senegal is a dramatic example of a trend playing out across the world, in which 90 percent of fisheries are fully fished or facing collapse, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
In South Sudan, a Never-Ending Hunger Season Puts Millions in Danger
The Times went to South Sudan to document the extent of hunger as food grew scarce. This year is expected to be the worst yet, as millions potentially face acute malnutrition.
Food Waste Enough to Feed World’s Hungry Four Times Over
Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency interviewed Alessandro Demaio, Chief Executive Officer of the Norway-based EAT, an international NGO engaged in the fight against hunger. Demaio said “At EAT, our mission is a simple but ambitious one: to transform the global food system and enable us to feed a growing global population with healthy food from a healthy planet – leaving no-one behind.”
Hunger, food insecurity plague the lives of millions in Africa
Moody Awori, former Vice President of the Republic of Kenya, and Siddharth Chatterjee, the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya, argue that Kenya’s development agenda correctly identifies food security as a major pathway for improving the conditions of a majority of Kenyans.
Michigan farm communities raise $7.3 million for world hunger
Foods Resource Bank is celebrating the key role Michigan farmers and their communities play in growing lasting solutions to hunger. To date, Michigan “Growing Projects” have raised $7.3 million to help farmers and families in developing countries.
Why hunger is still a problem in America (video)
CBS News provides an update to a 1968 video showing hunger and malnutrition in the United States.
