Camping in schools, hungry Haiti families ask: when will normality return?
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Majorie Edoi sells food from a stand in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince – or she used to, until a conflict with armed gangs cut off the city from suppliers, paralysed trade routes and pushed the Caribbean country to its highest levels of hunger on record. The 30-year-old mother of three now sells food […]
Main hospital in Ethiopia’s Tigray’s region runs out of food
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters The main hospital in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged region of Tigray has sent home 240 patients after food supplies ran out last week, officials said. The decision by Ayder Referral Hospital in Tigray’s capital Mekelle underscores how little food aid is reaching the region despite the government’s declaration in March of a unilateral truce […]
Rising hunger looms in Sudan, with little aid in sight
Khartoum, Sudan Reuters Millions more Sudanese are set to go hungry this year as economic turmoil and erratic rains drive up prices and reduce harvests, with a halt to foreign assistance and the war in Ukraine putting food supplies at further risk. The rising levels of hunger forecast by United Nations agencies threaten to further […]
UK to launch daily COVID tests in food sector to tackle ‘pingdemic’
London, UK Reuters Daily contact testing will be rolled out to workplaces in Britain’s food sector so staff who have been ‘pinged’ by the COVID-19 app can keep working if they test negative rather than isolating, the government said on Thursday. Some supermarkets are facing shortages of specific products – mainly those in demand in […]
“Starvation on the way”: Border crossing decision weighs on northwest Syria
Idlib, Syria Reuters Hussein Mahmoud, a displaced farmer from Syria’s Hama province who now lives in a camp in northern Idlib, divides the basic items in a food basket he receives monthly amongst his wife and 13 children. By mid-month, the bread, rice, lentils and other essentials he gets as aid are nearly scarce but […]
A Sustainable Life: The coronavirus pandemic requires us to understand food’s murky supply chains
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics CORY SEARCY and PAVEL CASTKA look at how consumers can take a more active role in ensuring transparency around supply chains…
Investors back global online market-place for ethical, green farmers
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Thomson Reuters Foundation A former investment banker has raised more than $US10 million to expand a startup that helps developing-nation farmers who are using green and ethical methods to earn more by linking them directly with food buyers around the world. After a decade investing in commodity markets at Deutsche Bank and […]
Plenty more fish in the sea? Not for the poor and hungry, researchers say
Rome Thomson Reuters Foundation Swapping fish for meat to help combat climate change risks exacerbating hunger in Africa, from where fish is increasingly exported to wealthy nations instead of providing key vitamins to malnourished local people, experts warned on Wednesday. Some consumers in rich countries are shunning meat in favour of other forms of protein, […]
‘Food shocks’ increasing in frequency over last five decades, report says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Food shocks, or sudden losses of crops, livestock or fish, due to the combination of extreme weather conditions and geopolitical events like war, increased from 1961 to 2013, said researchers at The University of Tasmania in a report released Monday. Researchers saw a steady increase in shock frequency over each decade with […]