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 […]
Postcards: In an empty kitchen, Yemeni family struggles with hunger
KHALID ABDULLAH and ABDULRAHMAN AL-ANISI, of Reuters, report from Sana’a…
Explainer: Living on the edge – what’s it like in Haiti?
Thomson Reuters Foundation A year after Haiti’s President was shot dead, the Caribbean island has sunk deeper into chaos, its poor and hungry people squeezed by rising violence and runaway inflation. Fuel, food and medicine are now out of reach for many Haitians. Members of the Haitian National Police patrol a street as ongoing gun battles […]
G20 finance chiefs resolved on food security; Ukraine war prevents formal communique
Nusa Dua, IndonesiaReuters The Group of 20 major economies’ finance chiefs on Saturday pledged to address global food insecurity and rising debt, but made few policy breakthroughs amid divisions over Russia’s war in Ukraine at a two-day meeting in Indonesia. With questions growing about the effectiveness of the G20 in tackling the world’s major problems, […]
Food security: Zimbabwe’s drought-hit farmers fear hunger after poor maize harvest
BUSANI BAFANA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how drought-ruined crops and a government mandate to sell harvests to the state have raised fears of food insecurity…
Essay: Is eastern Africa’s drought the worst in recent history? And are worse yet to come?
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK-based physical geographer DAVID NASH puts the current drought in eastern Africa in its historical context…
World faces unprecedented global hunger crisis, UN chief says
United NationsReuters There is a “real risk” of multiple famines this year, UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Friday and urged ministers meeting on food security to take practical steps to stabilise food markets and reduce commodity price volatility. “We face an unprecedented global hunger crisis,” Guterres told the meeting in Berlin via video. “The […]
Ghana chef serves free stew as more struggle to afford food
Accra, GhanaReuters Storm clouds circled a large zinc shed outside Ghana’s capital Accra where market porters sat on overturned metal bowls, disheartened by the lack of business as the encroaching rain deterred shoppers from nearby stalls. Then a rumbling sound broke the stillness as gourmet chef Elijah Addo pulled up in a food truck and […]
Food crisis will drive record displacement levels higher: UN refugee chief
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A food security crisis stoked by the Ukraine war is set to push more people to flee their homes in poorer countries, driving record levels of global displacement even higher, the head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said. A report by the UN body showed on Thursday that some 89.3 million people […]
Back to the land: Lebanese family turns to farming to survive crises
Houla, Lebanon Reuters In a remote village in southern Lebanon, Qassem Shreim crouched low to examine his wheat crop. Food costs have soared amid a global wheat crisis and Lebanon’s own economic meltdown, but the builder-turned-farmer feels shielded by his self-sufficiency. Like many families in crisis-plagued Lebanon, Shreim turned to farming after the local pound […]