The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

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.

The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabab extremist group

Zimbabwe says it's on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history, thanks in large part to efforts to overcome food supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine

Minister says more than 30,000 people forced to flee in Blue Nile state as tensions between rival communities erupt into violence

Polly Hudson says new PM Rishi Sunak needs to look at the Education budget as even a freeze in funds will have disastrous consequences for the poorest children in society

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’