Iran war may push 45 million people into acute hunger by June, WFP saysTens of millions more will face acute hunger if the Iran war continues through June, according to the World Food Programme. U.S.-Israeli at...
17 Mar, 2026, 05.14 PM IST
UN hopes AI tech can aid the starving as funding collapsesAs tech leaders hail dizzying change and billion-dollar deals at a global artificial intelligence summit in India, their promises collide w...
19 Feb, 2026, 05.20 PM IST
India's food transformation key to global hunger fight as Western funding drops: WFP Deputy ChiefAs global hunger soars due to conflict and funding cuts, the WFP highlights India's transformation into a key aid supplier. India's innovat...
25 Aug, 2025, 12.32 PM IST
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...
18 May, 2025, 02.09 PM IST
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...
17 May, 2025, 12.04 AM IST
Global Hunger Index 2024 ranks India under 'serious' categoryThe Global Hunger Index 2024 ranks India 105th, under the 'serious' category, with high levels of undernourishment and child mortality. Ind...
12 Oct, 2024, 06.14 PM IST
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...
25 Apr, 2024, 11.53 AM IST
Children 'going to bed hungry' in bankrupt Sri Lanka: UNSri Lanka is grappling with its worst downturn on record after running out of foreign currency to buy imports, leaving scarce supplies of f...
26 Aug, 2022, 08.09 PM IST
Sri Lanka to organise international donors conference of India, Japan & China: PMSpeaking in Parliament on Tuesday Wickremesinghe informed that Sri Lanka will organise a donor conference of friendly countries like India,...
05 Jul, 2022, 10.23 PM IST
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 ...
20 May, 2022, 12.21 PM IST
Food prices hold near record as Ukraine war upends tradeRussia’s invasion has brought down exports from Ukraine to a trickle, curbing supplies from one of the world’s biggest grain and vegetable ...
08 May, 2022, 05.02 PM IST
UN warns 3 million more now 'teetering on the edge of famine'The increase is based on those who desperately living within the official hunger classification of IPC4 and above, in Afghanistan, alongsid...
08 Nov, 2021, 08.00 AM IST
Billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk need to step up, says WFP chiefBeasley pointed at the small group of ultra-wealthy individuals, specifically naming the two richest men in the world -- Jeff Bezos and Elo...
28 Oct, 2021, 04.20 PM IST
More than half of Afghans face 'acute' food crisis: UN agencieshe crisis is already bigger in scale than that facing Yemen or Syria, and worse than any food insecurity emergency apart from the Democrati...
25 Oct, 2021, 03.16 PM IST
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...
06 May, 2021, 08.34 AM IST
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...
22 Apr, 2020, 01.59 PM IST
- Global food production could drop this year: FAO
Bad weather, violent conflict and volatile market prices could force a drop in the global production of cereal crops this year, the United ...
13 Feb, 2009, 01.31 PM IST