Centuries of scarcity

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In Yemen, seven million people on the brink of famine: FAO Director-General

About 17 million people, two-thirds of the population, are severely food insecure 

NORTH KOREA

Bunnies to the rescue

Success in a fistful of rice

Women come to the rescue of a village burdened by drought

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 …

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From the blurbs

A grain revolution for Africa

In just a few decades, Africa has become a net food importer. But it has to feed more and more people in the future. Estimates suggest the …

Human induced Famine

Official negligence turns a dry spell into a famine

From the Andes to the stars

Congo faces world’s worst food crisis due to COVID-19: Report

Around 21.8 million people are food insecure in the country due to disruption of food supply chains

A fruitful journey

A food safari in the desert of Rajasthan reveals a variety difficult to imagine in cities

A recorder of history

Photographs taken by Sunil Janah have shaped representations of the Bengal famine for decades

Children don’t even have energy to cry: Gaza Strip stares at famine as Israel blocks food access

Malnutrition in northern Gaza rose from 0.8% of children under 5 years before the conflict began to over 16% at present

Rat menace

The flowering of the bamboo is bad news for the people in Mizoram

IMF, World Bank blamed for food shortage in Malawi

Famine in Ethiopia: the roots lie in Eritrea’s long-running feud with Tigrayans

Entire region is classified “hard to reach” for aid convoys

Famine creeps in on Africa while the world’s media looks elsewhere

The western media's focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine …

Is the world headed for another food crisis?

One tends to fear that the last century’s achievement in curbing extreme hunger will be undone in the 21st century

At death's door

Around three million people are estimated to be severely food-insecure in north-eastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The writer looks at the …

Famine in motion

Nearly 1.5 million children at risk of acute malnutrition as Somalia drought worsens

Severe drought had affected about 90% of Somalia’s land and a quarter of its 16 million population in March this year

After catastrophic drought for 6 years, flash floods in Somalia displace 200,000

Floods by ongoing Gu rains destructed Belet Weyne district, Hirshabelle State and Baardheere in Jubaland State, says UN