The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

UN: US buying big Ukraine grain shipment for hungry regions

The head of the World Food program says the United States is stepping up to buy about 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine in the next few weeks for an upcoming shipment to hungry areas of the world

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2022

WFP Warns 22 Million Face Starvation in Horn of Africa

The number of people at risk of starvation in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa has increased to 22 million, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said Friday. Years of insufficient rainfall across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have caused the worst drought in 40 years and conditions akin to famine in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 20, 2022

Two More Grain Ships Leave Ukraine, Türkiye’s Defense Ministry Says

Two more ships carrying grain have left Ukraine's Chornomorsk port, Türkiye’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday, bringing the total number of vessels to leave Ukraine's Black Sea ports under a UN-brokered grain export deal to 27. The Zumrut Ana and MV Ocean S, which are authorized to depart on Aug.…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 20, 2022

Hunger stones, wrecks and bones: Europe’s drought brings past to surface

Receding rivers and lakes have exposed ghost villages, a Nazi vehicle and a Roman fort

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2022

Commentary: How schools can help save the world

As schools reopen around the country, they could take a page out of the “greatest generation’s” lesson plan — and help save the world.

Chicago Tribune · Aug 19, 2022

Putin’s war fuelling ‘catastrophic’ crisis putting 50 million people ‘one step from famine’

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “put more people at risk of death” in dozens of developing countries where nearly 50 million people are now just “one step away from famine,” a minister warned on Friday.

Evening Standard · Aug 19, 2022

Analysis-Years of political crises in Peru are finally hitting its economy

Since 2011, Peruvians have lived under seven presidents and seen four ex-leaders detained or wanted on corruption allegations. Yet, in the same period Peru has held onto the unlikely title of the fastest growing major economy in Latin America.

Reuters · Aug 18, 2022

Ethiopia calls WHO chief's comments on Tigray "unethical"

Ethiopia’s government is criticizing as “unethical” the statement by the World Health Organization’s director-general that the crisis in the country’s Tigray region is “the worst disaster on Earth” and his assertion that the lack of global attention is due to Tigrayans’ “color of the skin.”

The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2022

Editorial: After a year under Taliban rule, Afghans feel the price of peace.

Afghanistan today under Taliban rule virtually mirrors what the country was like before the American invasion in October 2001. Girls cannot attend secondary school. Once again, women no longer work as lawyers, judges or police officers. Men must wear beards and traditional Afghan garb.

Chicago Tribune · Aug 18, 2022

Ethiopia government proposes plan for peace in war-torn Tigray

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front dismisses the move and says the gov’t is engaged in ‘obfuscation’.

Al Jazeera · Aug 17, 2022