Avainsana: hunger
Afghanistan: EU mobilises €25 million in humanitarian aid to fight hunger
The Commission is allocating €25 million in humanitarian funding from its Solidarity Emergency Aid Reserve to fight hunger in Afghanistan. Urgent actions to save lives…
UN agencies call for urgent action to avert famine risk in 20 ‘hunger hotspots’
Famine is already on the doorstep of millions of families in 20 countries, two UN agencies warned on Tuesday in a report that calls for…
Africa is not on track to achieve zero hunger by 2030
Africa is not on track to achieve zero hunger by 2030, Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Regional Representative for Africa, Abebe Haile-Gabriel, told a meeting…
Hunger rising in mountain regions due to biodiversity loss, climate change
Although many of the world’s most important crops and livestock species originate in mountain regions, hunger is rising in these areas due to biodiversity loss…
A deep dive into Zero Hunger: the seaweed revolution
If just two per cent of the Ocean were to be sustainably farmed, the world could easily be fed, according to experts. In the first…
Why is coronavirus causing rising hunger in middle-income countries?
More people will die of hunger caused by the pandemic than of coronavirus this year, according to ”The Hunger Virus”, a report from Oxfam. Poor…
Rising hunger threatens famines as coronavirus crashes economies, leaves crops to rot in fields
Recessions caused by the coronavirus pandemic are leaving people hungry and raising the specter of famines this year. Unless the world acts immediately, a UN…
Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
Food waste is taking on a new meaning in the pandemic era. Dumped milk in Wisconsin. Smashed eggs in Nigeria. Rotting grapes in India. Buried…
Coronavirus fallout: Hunger queues in Madrid in wake of COVID-19 lockdown
Spain has recently made huge strides in curbing its COVID-19 outbreak. But millions of residents are now paying the price of weeks of economic shutdown….
Lockdowns pile job losses and hunger onto Syrian refugees’ plight
Many of the 5.6 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey had scraped by on meagre daily wages but now find even that is…
COVID-19: Using economic stimulus to reduce the long-term hunger impact
Beyond the COVID-19 health emergency, a recession looms, and countries ought to take measures now to soften the longer-term impacts on hunger and food insecurity,…
Latin America to see sharp increase in hunger, poverty -FAO
Hunger and poverty are set to spike in Latin America and the Caribbean as the impact of the novel coronavirus ravages the region´s economies and…
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