Essay: Pakistan floods – ancient grains like millet could be key to rebuilding food systems
In an article first published on The Conversation, SHAILAJA FENNELL, of the University of Cambridge, argues that cultivating “pseudograins” like millet would let farmers compensate for falling yields as intensifying heatwaves make wheat cultivation increasingly difficult…
Quick fix for hunger and climate goals? More spending on small farmers
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Global goals to tackle climate change and end hunger by 2030 are within reach if donors and developing nations help small farmers grow more climate resilient crops, access irrigation and tap into social safety nets, researchers said Monday. In a new report, they identified 10 key shifts that could lift nearly […]
Millions more hungry in 2017 amid famine, conflict, and numbers rising, says report
Thomson Reuters Foundation Conflicts and climate disasters, particularly drought, drove the number of people facing crisis levels of hunger up by about 15 per cent last year and the situation is getting worse, a report said on Thursday. Last year 124 million people in 51 countries faced crisis levels of hunger compared to 108 million people in […]
Africa tops global hunger index, driven by war and climate shocks
Thomson Reuters Foundation Global hunger has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but conflict and climate shocks are beginning to reverse these gains, an annual global hunger index said on Thursday. Nearly half of the 119 countries surveyed had “serious”, “alarming” or “extremely alarming” hunger levels between 2012 and 2016, with war-torn Central African […]
International community not on course to end hunger by 2030, says report
The international community is not on course to end hunger by the UN Sustainable Development Goal deadline of 2030, according to the 2016 Global Hunger Index. Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, the index shows that if the rate at which hunger declines remains the same as it has been since 1992, more […]