The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

India’s social safety net offers lessons as food prices rocket up

India’s inflation problem is making hunger worse and attempts to fix inflation may just add to poverty.

360info · Sep 26, 2022

Tunisians protest against poverty, high prices and food shortages

Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Sunday night in the capital against poverty, high prices and the shortage of some foodstuff, escalating pressure on the government of President Kais Saied, as the country suffers an economic and political crisis.

Reuters · Sep 25, 2022

Ukraine conflict aggravates food and energy inflation: Jaishankar

Mr. Jaishankar was speaking at a special ‘India@75’ event in New York

The Hindu · Sep 24, 2022

'Knocking on famine's door': UN food chief wants action now

The U.N. food chief is warning that the world is facing “a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm" when it comes to hunger

The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2022

‘I lost them all’: a family’s sole survivor recalls their slow death under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge

As a UN court upholds the conviction of the genocidal regime’s last surviving leader, Seang Seng tells how starvation and forced labour killed 23 people of his family

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

UK accused of abandoning global south as it fails to boost spending on key fund

Liz Truss’s administration becomes only major world power not to raise its spending at UN pledging event

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

Horn of Africa drought puts 3.6m children at risk of dropping out of school

Experts warn that girls’ education will be worst hit, as many families are forced to move away from schools

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2022

'Childhood hunger is the shocking reality for millions of families across the UK'

We are facing the worst cost of living crisis in a generation and wages are not keeping pace with rising bills. Neither are benefits and this is hitting the most vulnerable the hardest, writes Kevin Courtney

Daily Mirror · Sep 22, 2022

Gary Lineker among 100 backing Mirror's free school meals campaign to stop child hunger

Our joint campaign with the National Education Union is urging new Prime Minister Liz Truss to offer a lifeline to hard-up families by making sure no youngster is left starving

Daily Mirror · Sep 22, 2022

Gates Foundation prods UN, honors inspiration as Goalkeepers

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates combined characteristic optimism with sobering questions about persistent gender inequality and hunger at an event the Gateses’ foundation convened on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022