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Global food prices rose in March, the first increase since July, pulled higher by cooking oil prices despite the cost of grains continuing to ease, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said Friday.

Without online remittances, soaring prices and cereal production cut, Sudan is in the middle of a humanitarian disaster.

A UN roadmap to reform the world’s food systems – which account for a third of carbon emissions – has been criticised by experts who say it lacks transparency and fails to properly address the crucial need to reduce meat consumption.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the entire population of Gaza is experiencing 'severe levels of acute food insecurity', as the UN food agency has declared famine is imminent in the enclave, underscoring the urgency for increasing the delivery of humanitarian aid to people starving in the territory.

Academic experts also criticise UN Food and Agriculture Organization for dismissing alternative proteins

Rural households led by women lose about 8% more income to heat stress than male-led families, data shows

The UN, which has warned of "almost inevitable" widespread starvation in northern Gaza, uses strict criteria to declare a famine.

In a surprising turn of events, global food commodity prices fell last year, despite the difficult circumstances surrounding food security worldwide. The U...

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oil fell last year from record highs in 2022

Since 2020, the 800-acre Central de Abastos market has reduced daily food waste by 24% and delivered almost 800 tons of unsold food to soup kitchens.

Experts say multiple errors were made in a UN-coordinated campaign to tackle the locust invasion in Kenya.