Postcards: As Argentina food prices soar, more people scavenge to survive
MIGUEL LO BIANCO, of Reuters, reports from Buenos Aires…
“Grave danger”: Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, reports on the daily struggle Sudanese are facing to find food in a nation riven by war…
North Korea’s Kim warns failure to provide food a “serious political issue”
Seoul, South Korea Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for ways to be found to improve economic development after saying that a failure to provide people with basic living necessities including food is a “serious political issue”, state media reported on Thursday. Kim made the remarks while discussing regional development in a […]
A Sustainable Life: Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill. Here’s how
Amid growing food insecurity in Australia and elsewhere, KATE NEALE, a researcher at Southern Cross University, provides some tips for growing your own food…
Under threat: Sudan’s fishermen fear for future as climate change reduces hauls
ELA YOKES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how rising heat and overfishing are spelling trouble for food security as Sudanese fishermen complain of falling stocks and government inaction…
Essay: Niger is Africa’s fastest growing country – how to feed 25 million more people in 30 years
In an article first published on The Conversation, KAYENAT KABIR, of Purdue University, looks at how Niger will feed its growing population in the future…
Development partners commit $US30 billion to food production in Africa
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Development partners have committed $US30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than one […]
Hunger threatens Congo’s Goma after fighting cuts supply routes
Goma, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters Sitting in the dirt, Valerie Kahindo picks spoiled kernels from a sack of maize – the only job the farmer can find in the eastern Congolese city of Goma after rebel fighters seized her fields and forced her to flee without her family. The mother of eight is among 450,000 […]
Dying lands: Farmers fight to save the “skin of the Earth”
ROD NICKEL, AYENAT MERSIE, DAVID STANWAY and XIAOYU YIN, of Reuters, report on how human efforts to preserve soil are proving no match for increasingly extreme weather, which is damaging the living system and depleting its ability to produce food…
Torrential floods in West Africa hurt food security
Dana, Cameroon Reuters Souloukna Mourga plodded through his flooded millet and cotton field in northern Cameroon and uprooted soggy stems that had a few bolls on them. All six hectares of mostly dead crops were under water. The 50-year-old father of 12 is one of an estimated four million people, many of them small subsistence […]