Asia
Top 10 Facts About Hunger in the Philippines
The Borgen Project details the top 10 facts about hunger in the Philippines will shed some light on areas that need improvement as well as areas where the country has been successful....
Is climate change pushing the world into hunger?
As South-east Asia's population grows rapidly, decreasing rice yields as well as the increasingly erratic weather brought by a warming world will place ever more stress on a region where millions still do not have enough access to food...
New Pest in India Could Threaten National and Asian Food Security
Fall Army Worm has been spotted in India for the first time, threatening crops and food security throughout Asia....
Astana opens Islamic Organisation for Food Security headquarters
The Islamic Organisation for Food Security (IOFS) headquarters opened Sept. 27 in Kazakhstan's capital. The organisation seeks to strengthen cooperation among member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to ensure food security for its member states and develop the Kazakh agricultu...
Asia’s food systems are under pressure study shows
Asian business leaders overwhelmingly agree that there is cause for alarm around Asia’s food security, according to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The study, Fixing Asia’s Food Systems, found that population growth, urbanisation and changing food demands ar...
Maintaining Food Security, Indonesia’s Agriculture Minister Focuses on Four Targets
Indonesia's Agriculture Minister recently spoke about four key targets to promote self-sufficiency and food security in the country....
Drought raises food security fears in Afghanistan
A shortage of precipitation during the winter months, both rain and snow, left much of Afghanistan with a severe scarcity of water and a decimated winter harvest. The situation has not improved during the ...
Food and Nutrition Security in Timor-Leste: Challenges and Prospects
Recent graduate Caleb Gorton outlines the hunger and nutrition issues affecting Timor-Leste, which has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world, with 46 per cent of children under five suffering from chronic malnutrition....
A step towards hunger-free India
Millions of people in our country sleep hungry every single day, making it one of the major issues to tackle with, but we still waste food worth crores everyday. With an aim to put an end to food-wastage and ward off the evil of hunger among the poor, Robin Hood Army (RHA), a zero-funds organisation...
Red Cross warns of food crisis in N. Korea as crops fail in heat
A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, "with potentially catastrophic effects," the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday. The world's largest disaster relief network warned of a risk of a "full-blown fo...
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