Famine declared in South Sudan; about 4.9 million people in urgent need of food

The number of food insecure people can rise to 5.5 million in July if nothing is done to curb the severity and spread of food crisis

Extreme hunger in South Sudan pushes locals to gather food for survival

Households are now surviving by gathering food, as they are unable to grow their own or earn money to buy any

Repeated multi-year droughts hit India over last 1,000 years, water policies need reassessment: Study

Southwest monsoon could switch into a drought-prone mode, lasting decades in the future

Famines: what 20th century food crises tell us about how to cope with the Ukraine fallout

Our success at navigating the first serious global challenge to food security in the 21st century will indicate how well equipped we are to …

Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues

Over 300,000 people in Somalia may be in famine by December

Locust invasion

SOMALIA

Ethiopia

New global benchmark for famine declarations

The ‘Famine Likely’ classification will be applicable in locations with insufficient evidence, but where available information …

Somalia on verge of being hit by famine

About 250,000 people had died in the famine that hit the Horn of Africa in 2011

Europe just had its hottest summer on record

Month of August was also the hottest on record for Europe

Horn of Africa faces unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe after 5th failed rainy season

Cumulative rainfall predicted by WMO in the drought-affected regions of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia will be severely below the average

Food safari in deserts of Rajasthan

Down To Earth travels to Rajasthan to find out about the traditional food habits of desert people. On this journey, we discovered that not-so-…

FAO

NORTH KOREA

The famine syndrome

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Somalia: Drought forced more than 450,000 people from their homes this year

Around 1.4 million children could be acutely malnourished by mid-year

How Ethiopia’s conflict has affected farming in Tigray

While it was in a minimal food insecurity situation before the war, the larger part of Tigray has now entered emergency and famine conditions

Green sees red

Close to famine

ETHIOPIA

Somalia drought: FAO asks for $131 million to aid relief efforts

FAO has appealed since April last year, but the response has not been at the levels needed

Centuries of scarcity

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Current climate reports might have underestimated the consequences of the climate crisis

The models do not consider methane emissions from permafrost thawing and carbon releases from droughts 

How climate change contributed to Madagascar’s food crisis

Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first climate change famine. Tens of thousands of people are suffering catastrophic …