The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

Lisa Williams, head teacher at Rushey Green Primary School says a child was found eating a sandwich with no filling to avoid being hungry, others are having to steal snacks and 'eat rubbers'

Starvation has threatened Yemen’s children for years

More people – including children – going hungry than during first weeks of Covid lockdown, new data shows

More than half of children aged under five in Somalia are facing acute malnutrition

Feed the Future: ‘My body has got used to it but mentally it’s traumatic,’ one mother tells David Cohen

International organizations said that about three million children in Sudan are acutely malnourished, of which 650,000 suffer from severe acute malnutrition and need care. These children are mainly in Darfur and Kordofan states in western Sudan and the Red Sea region, east of the country. These areas have witnessed armed…

Facing supply shortages, price hikes and the prevalent use of dangerous pesticides, city-dwellers are turning to homegrown food

More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The situation in Somalia in the coming months could be a great deal worse, despite global commitments to never let the 2011 famine happen again.

The charity’s annual Hunger Report estimates about 500,000 households on any given day struggle with getting enough to eat