Africa
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....
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....
Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns
Hundreds of thousands of children in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo face imminent death from hunger, the UN children’s agency, Unicef, warned on Friday. Without urgent humanitarian assistance, said the agency, child fatalities in the Kasai region – which erupted in violence ...
‘I can go days without eating’: Hunger rises in South Sudan
Five years into South Sudan’s civil war more than 7 million people are facing severe hunger without food aid, according to the latest analysis by the U.N. and the government. Aid workers warn that a recent surge in fighting could once again plunge thousands of people into famine....
Wasted labour: Kenyan Farmers lost over Sh150 billion
In 2017, Kenya Shilling 150 billion worth of food went to waste, tossed out or left to rot, a report that tries to track food waste has said. According to the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), farmers lost earnings as they struggled to manage, store, and transport their produce to the mark...
How market-based agriculture affects homes’ food security
Small-scale farmers contribute about 70 per cent to the national food basket, yet the average maize farmer in Kenya is a net buyer – able to grow enough to supply themselves for seven to nine months in a year, and the rest of the time they must buy from the market. However, the market system is no...
WFP Conducts Training For Liberian Journalists in Food and Nutrition Security
The World Food Programme hosted a group of Liberian journalists at a two-day training in food and nutrition security reporting on Tuesday recently in Monrovia. The participating journalists, drawn mainly from the print, electronic and web-based media outlets, were drilled through the steps in report...
Egypt, FAO sign framework to raise food security
Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Abd El-Maneim El Banna and Hussein Gaden, representative of the United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), signed the framework of the Egyptian national program for 2018-2022 which focuses on achieving three priorities: improving agricultura...
Agriculture in Africa: Telling Facts from Myths
This project from The World Bank Group, “Agriculture in Africa: Telling facts from Myths,” contains 14 studies exploring some facts about Agriculture in Africa that many experts and policy makers consider self-evident truths. But the rural landscape of the continent has evolved, as has the Afric...
Project improves food security in six African nations
Launched in 2012, the project funded by the government of Finland and called FoodAfrica Programme has helped improve the security and quality of food supply in Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda. Program leaders said that the initiative that ends in June this year is centered on susta...
-
World Hunger Education
Service
P.O. Box 29015
Washington, D.C. 20017 -
World Hunger News
-
Error: Access Token is not valid or has expired. Feed will not update.
This error message is only visible to WordPress adminsThere's an issue with the Instagram Access Token that you are using. Please obtain a new Access Token on the plugin's Settings page.
If you continue to have an issue with your Access Token then please see this FAQ for more information.