Millions face hunger as Myanmar crisis worsens, United Nations says
Reuters Food insecurity is rising sharply in Myanmar in the wake of the military coup and deepening financial crisis with millions more people expected to go hungry in coming months, the United Nations said on Thursday. Up to 3.4 million more people will struggle to afford food in the next three to six months with […]
As millions face famine, women at risk as they eat last and least
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation With millions on the brink of famine in four nations, women and girls will be hardest hit due to cultural beliefs and COVID-19’s economic impacts, the charity CARE said on Wednesday. The coronavirus pandemic could nearly double the number of acutely food insecure people to more than 270 million by the […]
Storm Eta damage pushes small, Indigenous farmers in Central America into hunger
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Ruben Garcia not long ago had small herds of cattle and fields bursting with crops, and now the Indigenous farmer in northern Nicaragua lies awake worrying how long it will be before he and his neighbors run out of food. The wooden homes and tiny farms of the Indigenous Miskito community […]
Revamp hunger aid, urges risk chief for Nobel-winning UN food agency
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic is set to nearly double the number of people facing starvation this year, but preparing better would help battle such crises in the future, said an official at the World Food Programme, after it won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. As the UN food aid agency was […]
Essay: To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap
In an article first published on The Conversation, academics MICHAEL FAKHRI, of the University of Oregon, and NTINA TZOUVALA, of Australian National University, look at why cheaper food isn’t the answer to the world’s hunger crisis…
Essay: How a coronavirus lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city
In an article first published on The Conversation, Durham University researchers MOHAMMAD FEISAL RAHMANand HANNA A RUSCZYK look at how a coronavirus lockdown impacted food security in one Bangladeshi community…
With climate change, conflict and COVID, stresses grow for Malian villagers
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly four decades ago, farmers in the small central Malian village of Dlonguebougou grew their millet crops with little more than hoes, and local mud-hut shops sold just the basics: salt, sugar, tea, cola nuts, kerosene and cigarettes. The vast empty reaches of the Sahel, stretching north into the Sahara Desert, […]
“So many problems”: Ugandan women fear food shortages will make coronavirus and HIV a deadly mix
SALLY HAYDEN reports for the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the challenges facing HIV positive women in Uganda during the coronavirus pandemic…
Global hunger could double due to COVID-19 blow, says UN
Genevam Switzerland/Washington DC, USReuters The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations’ World Food Programme said on Tuesday. The impact of lost tourism revenues, falling remittances and travel and other restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic are […]
“THE EATING CHURCH”: HAVING FED NEW YORK’S HUNGRY FOR 24 YEARS, ADVENT LUTHERAN’S PANTRY IS DWINDLING
GEORGIA GEE, writing for Religion Unplugged, reports how New York’s Advent Lutheran Church came to be nick-named ‘The Eating Church’ and the challenges its programs face…