The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

With famine in Somalia almost inevitable, Martin Griffiths criticises opaque handling of $100bn a year promised to poorer countries

Since 1990 the world’s famines have been classified as small – with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN’s World Food Programme says that nearly seven million Somalis face not being able to find enough food in the last months of 2022.

By every conceivable measure, South Sudan is a nation in crisis. Though a peace agreement was signed in 2018, it is yet to be implemented. While visiting the country this month, the U.N. Commissioner on Human Rights in South Sudan warned that every passing day of inaction means not just…

Between rising hunger and the prospect of still more supply shortages, dark clouds are hovering over the global food system. Not only has the war in Ukraine limited access to, and raised prices for, food, and fertiliser, but extreme weather events are disrupting production, and economic downturns have diminished people's…

Our world is not suffering from a lack of calories, but a lack of good nutrition which can sustain us. Science might just have the answers.

Editorial: Civilians in Tigray are in grave danger following the collapse of the ceasefire. World leaders must turn their attention to this crisis

The Education Secretary has been told to “avert a calamitous hunger crisis”

Feed the Future: ‘In an alarming number of cases, the only healthy meal eaten each day is the free one provided in schools’

We know university students regularly go without food and other necessities because they cannot afford them. This has negative impacts on their learning and physical and mental health.