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World faces fresh food price surge, FAO warnsGlobal food prices may rise significantly by year-end and next year. Conflicts in Iran and Ukraine are impacting agricultural inputs and tr...- World faces fresh food price surge, FAO warnsGlobal food prices may rise by year-end and next year. Wars in Iran and Ukraine impact agricultural inputs and exports. Extreme weather eve...
- Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency saysA powerful El Nino may push nearly 49 million more people into food insecurity. This event carries an 81% chance of being very strong, impa...
- Afghanistan's malnutrition crisis 'spinning out of control': UNChild malnutrition reaches critical levels in Afghanistan as aid is drastically cut. Many acutely malnourished children are being turned aw...
- 10 countries are home to two-thirds of world's most hungry: UN-backed reportA UN-backed report reveals two-thirds of global food crises last year were concentrated in just 10 countries, with Sudan, Nigeria, and the ...
- Pakistan's hunger emergency: How acute food insecurity would impact 11 million peoplePakistan faces persistent food insecurity. A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization reveals that 11 million people will face a...
- Global hunger at new high, 2025 outlook bleak: UN-backed reportIt was the sixth consecutive annual increase in the number of people hit with "high levels" of acute food insecurity, according to the Glob...
- UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with the worst famine in GazaIn 2023, 282 million individuals across 59 countries experienced acute hunger, with Gaza having the largest number facing famine. South Sud...
- Climate crises drove 27 million children into hunger in 2022: charityExtreme weather events in vulnerable countries drove 27 million children into hunger last year, a 135% increase over 2021. Children account...
- US challenges world to tell Russia to stop using Ukrainian grain as 'blackmail'America’s top diplomat lashed out at Russia at a U.N. Security Council meeting for ignoring the world’s appeals and pulling out of the year...
- Forced to cut food aid to millions globally because of a funding crisis: UNThe United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) has cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries due to a si...
- Scarcity of food may lead to poor mental health in children: StudyReducing food insecurity may help alleviate some mental health issues for children and youth, the researchers said.
- Gender equality in farming could add $1 trillion to world economyAs per the World Food Programme, the number of people facing hunger this year is over double of what it was in 2020.
- Six million people in Pakistan facing acute food insecurityThe update also noted that food production in the region has been widely disrupted by the floods caused by higher-than-normal monsoon rains...
- 36 countries including US urge UN members to keep food markets open, avoid export bansIn a statement issued the after ministerial meeting 'Roadmap for Global Food Security-Call to Action', they called on all UN Member States ...
- War in Ukraine is exacerbating global hunger crisis, UN officials sayAt least 276 million people now face acute food insecurity, up from 135 million before the pandemic, and 49 million people in 43 countries ...
- 12.2 million people in Afghanistan acutely food insecure: UNThe UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 735,000 people returned to the country this year from Iran, Pakistan...
- UN says 155 million people faced severe hunger last yearThe report, which focuses on 55 countries that account for 97% of humanitarian assistance, said the magnitude and severity of food crises l...
- World Food Programme chief 'deeply humbled' by Nobel win, calls it 'incredible recognition' of WFP familyIn 2015, eradicating hunger was adopted as one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
- World could face multiple famines of biblical proportions due to COVID-19: UN bodyThe novel coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last, has so far infected over 2,565,290 people and claime...
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