Hunger

World Food Day 2022: History, significance and more

Worldwide, about more than 80 percent of the poor reside in rural areas and are mostly dependent on agriculture and natural resources for their living.

Famine ‘at the door’ in parts of Somalia: What does this mean?

Throughout history, famines have generally been caused by human action, usually wars which ravage crops and livestock, ruin trade, displace people and complicate the distribution of aid

Afghanistan: More than half the country facing 'acute' food shortages, say UN agencies

According to the statement issued by the World Food Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, one in two Afghans faces Phase 3 'crisis' or Phase 4 'emergency' food shortages

UN food system summit hoped to tackle problem of world hunger, provoke the ire of experts and anti-hunger groups

“The food systems summit has categorically failed,” committee member Michael Fakhri. “The summit’s organizers have ignored people’s daily struggles. And who’s benefited from this agenda? Corporations."

In Mexico, hunger and unemployment force many former sex workers back into trade amid COVID-19 pandemic

Conditions that have always been tough for the women who ply the trade in Mexico City — violence by clients and gangs who prey on prostitutes and shakedowns by corrupt police — got even worse during the pandemic.

Hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme can't build peace on its own

Hunger has been used as a weapon of war for many years, but the issue has recently risen to prominence because of the increased risk of mass starvation in today’s conflicts.

First famines induced by the Coronavirus pandemic are already at the world’s doorstep, UN warns

In April, the executive director of the World Food Program warned the Security Council that while the world was contending with the pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic.

UN report states COVID-19 linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 children a month

“The food security effects of the COVID crisis are going to reflect many years from now,” said Dr Francesco Branca, the World Health Organization head of nutrition

On the politics of hunger: In the midst of a lockdown and humanitarian crisis, notes from practising a meditative fast

Contemplate the politics of hunger; availability of food for all individual, community food practices; the vegan politics; vegetarianism; the beef ban; hunger strikes and who is able to do them or lead them and why, in a country like India.

Poor in Bengaluru unsure of next meal during COVID-19 lockdown; low quality PDS ration, absence of mid-day meals contributed to food insecurity

Many poor people in Bengaluru were forced to depend on meals and rations provided through the philanthropic efforts of private individuals.