World food prices reach 18-month high in October, UN says
Paris, France Reuters World food prices rose in October to an 18-month high as vegetable oils led increases seen in most food staples, United Nations’ data showed on Friday. A price index compiled by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to track the most globally traded food commodities increased to 127.4 points last month, […]
Insecurity, rising costs push 31 million Nigerians into acute food shortage, study says
Lagos, Nigeria Reuters More than 31.8 million Nigerians are acutely short of food due to security challenges and the removal of fuel subsidies, the government said on Tuesday, citing a study by several of the country’s international development partners. The scale of the shortages, which have led to malnutrition among women and children, was set […]
Drive to end global hunger has stalled, United Nations warns
Rome, Italy Reuters A goal to eliminate global hunger by 2030 looks increasingly impossible to achieve, with the number of people suffering chronic hunger barely changed over the past year, a UN report said on Wednesday. The annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report said around 733 million people faced hunger […]
“Better to be resilient”: How can drought-parched Somalia break out of endless crisis?
Boosting drought resilience, in part by focusing on local priorities, could cut long-term need for humanitarian aid, experts say. LAURIE GOERING, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Poor harvests: How drought and hunger is driving Nepal farmers to India, defying COVID ban
AADESH SUBEDI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how an unusually dry monsoon has led some farmers to seek work in India – despite coronavirus-related travel bans…
Somalia races to save livelihoods as new locust generation spawns
Nairobi, Kenya Thomson Reuters Foundation Somalia is deploying surveillance teams and specialised vehicles to prevent desert locust swarms ravaging crops and pastures, and destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, United Nations and government officials said on Monday. The worst outbreak in a generation has seen hungry swarms – some the size of […]
Rise in rural poverty reverses gains in Latin America – UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rural poverty has risen for the first time in a decade in Latin America and the Caribbean, reversing earlier gains, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Wednesday. Two million people joined the ranks of the region’s rural poor between 2014 and 2016, taking the total to nearly half the rural […]