Refugee crisis: hard facts you must know

Thousands are fleeing war zone. Conflicts are causing mass displacement. The UNHCR report makes some stark revelations on the number of people …

Why Kenya’s experiment in giving local governments the power to manage food security hasn’t worked

The capacity of county governments to implement national policies must also be enhanced

Nearly 282 million people in Africa were undernourished in 2022: UN

Approximately one billion people were unable to afford a healthy diet in 2021  

Worrying picture emerges about India’s SDG indicators on food and agriculture

Cultivable land in India, which is home to 18 per cent of the world’s population, is vulnerable to drought, floods and degradation

NITI Ayog's SDG report flags huge worries about hunger, poverty in India

Poor show by 25 states on food security and malnutrition Sustainable Development Index 2019 

‘Over 22 million in Ethiopia facing severe food crisis’

Back-to-back droughts causing food emergency, children at high risk of death from malnutrition, says non-profit

Global Hunger Index: Why is India trailing?

India ranked 94 in global hunger index 2020 among 107 countries 

Unprecedented 93% of population in Gaza facing crisis levels of hunger, warns WHO

Region already reporting soaring rates of infectious diseases, hunger is expected to worsen illnesses

Artificial Intelligence, satellite-driven crop monitoring to help Kenya farmers boost yield

Climate crisis making farmers increasingly vulnerable; digital platform will enable farmers and decision-makers to get precise information about …

Simply put: Food contamination kills 2 million people

Global Hunger Index 2023: India reports highest child wasting rate; slips 4 notches on ranking

The country’s child wasting rate is higher than that of conflict-ridden Yemen at 14.4 per cent and Sudan at 13.7 per cent

Can India reduce food wastage with community refrigerators?

Community refrigerators have helped reduce food wastage in the UAE, Germany and France. India too can popularise and scale up the initiative

Poor land use can cost the world $23 trillion by 2050

If the world spends even a fraction of the predicted loss, it can reverse land degradation, which affects the poorest the most

Quinoa production rises by 72% in more than a decade

From 2000 to 2014, quinoa production increased by 72% in Peru, Bolivia and Eucador, the world's biggest quinoa producers, says a new report

1.9 billion in Asia-Pacific cannot afford healthy diet: UN report

At the same time, an estimated 14.5 million children under five were overweight or obese in 2020

Dignity at the end of life: a Malawian nursing study shows the impact of food

Food security emerged as a critical concern in the study, that has significant consequences for dying women’s dignity. There are …

G20 Summit: Oxfam urges action on COVID-19, climate, poverty and hunger

G20 leaders have a choice to either take urgent action or continue what they are doing, Oxfam says

Investment in technology must to achieve zero hunger

FAO estimates that the world will need to produce some 60 per cent more food, on an average, to feed a hungry world by 2050

Growing up stunted

Stunting, which reflects chronic undernutrition, is very high among tribal children in Madhya Pradesh. They can get nutritive foods from forests, …

Need food system overhaul to combat global hunger: Report

Promoting consumption model and regenerative production practices, supporting development of diverse distribution market networks is need of the hour

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global hunger hotspots: UN report

Conflict, climate extremes and economic shocks driving communities into crisis; Sudan conflict can impact several neighbouring countries

Climate change: Over a million farming households face acute food shortage in Zambia, warns Oxfam 

A severe drought, worsened by climate change & El Nino, has caused massive crop failures for half of the nation’s planted area

The hunger syndrome

When hunger stalks, politics and bureaucracy only bring mayhem

Carved in stone: What are these warning signs that Europe’s drought has revealed

Hunger stones are a common hydrological marker in the region that date back to the pre-instrumental era

World is not doing enough to end hunger by 2030: UN

Food inflation on unprecedented rise triggered by COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war