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Why is global hunger on the rise? UN economists explain a new answer
Two UN economists, authors of the SOFI report, discuss the new statistics on world hunger...
New UN State of Food Security report released
The United Nations just released the 2019 State of Food Security report....
The climate crisis is inherently unfair. These 9 countries will get hit especially hard as the globe heats up.
Nine countries are already experiencing severe effects from climate change, which can lead to food insecurity and hunger...
Who are the world’s food insecure? Identifying the risk factors of food insecurity around the world
USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) reports on FAO's new Food Insecurity Experience Scale, which is modeled on ERS's U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module. ...
Graça Machel calls for disrupting the agricultural sector to achieve Zero Hunger
Delivering the McDougall Memorial Lecture on food security at the opening of the 41st Session of the FAO Conference on the challenges and opportunities of reaching Zero Hunger, Graça Machel - an international advocate for children's and women's rights - condemned "the shameful failure of global...
Malnutrition, a global problem in search of global solutions
NEW DELHI — Sunita Devi is huddled with about 20 women in a primary health care center in Gervani village, in the central state of Chhattisgarh in India. She’s anemic and pregnant, and she has questions for the health worker: “When will my anemia go away? Will my child be born anemic too? What...
Scotland’s food waste causing more greenhouse gas than plastic
Food waste is a bigger cause of climate change than plastics, according to Zero Waste Scotland. The government-funded body has urged people to cut down the amount of unwanted food they put in the bin. When food waste ends up in landfill it rots, producing ...
Emissions and microplastics: How food waste hurts the environment
Throwing away food that could still be eaten isn't just a waste of money, it also costs precious resources, hurts the climate, threatens biodiversity and can contaminate our soil with microplastics....
Acute food insecurity ‘far too high’ UN agency warns, as 113 million go hungry
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and EU “Global Report on Food Crises 2019”, shows that the number going chronically-hungry has remained well over 100 million over the past three years, with the number of countries affected, rising. According to the rep...
Food banks risk being ‘captured’ by corporate PR drive, say activists
The UK food bank movement has been warned it is in danger of being “captured” by big corporations and supermarket chains that promote high-profile partnerships with charities as effective ways of solving hunger and food waste. A letter to the Guardian from 58 academics and campaigners criti...
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