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It's not just Australian students who need more food, university staff are also going hungry

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.

The Conversation

Foodbank charity launches urgent winter appeal as it faces "tsunami of need"

Fears are growing that stock could run low as the Trussell Trust braces for its "worst winter yet"

Daily Mirror

Teachers call on government to extend free school meals so children are not ‘left behind’

Feed the Future: Organisations representing more than one million teachers, support staff and governors tress the need for ‘immediate’ action in letter to the prime minister

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Kids going to school so hungry they're 'stealing snacks and eating rubbers to feel full'

Lisa Williams, head teacher at Rushey Green Primary School says a child was found eating a sandwich with no filling to avoid being hungry, others are having to steal snacks and 'eat rubbers'

Daily Mirror

Children starve as Yemen teeters on a return to fighting

Starvation has threatened Yemen’s children for years

The Independent UK

Tommy Tiernan returns from Somalia where he witnessed humanitarian devastation across the region

Trócaire has warned of a rapid deterioration in the food crisis in Somalia

Irish Mirror

The Guardian view on hunger in Britain: cruel and unnecessary

Editorial: Food insecurity has been normalised over a decade during which the incomes of the poorest households have been held down

The Guardian - UK

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One child a minute being admitted for malnutrition treatment in Somalia: UNICEF

One child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as severe drought threatens to cause the deaths of children on a scale not seen in half a century, a spokesperson for UNICEF said on Tuesday.

Reuters

FAO, WFP: Iraq One of the Countries Most Affected by Climate Change

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) in Iraq issued a joint statement on the occasion of World Food Day on Monday on the future of Iraq’s agriculture and food security. The statement was issued amid a drought wave hitting Iraq for the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Millions forced to skip meals as UK cost of living crisis deepens

More people – including children – going hungry than during first weeks of Covid lockdown, new data shows

The Guardian - UK

Somalia famine: what has caused the worst drought in 40 years and how to donate

More than half of children aged under five in Somalia are facing acute malnutrition

Evening Standard

‘I feel trapped’: The mothers going without food so their children can eat

Feed the Future: ‘My body has got used to it but mentally it’s traumatic,’ one mother tells David Cohen

The Independent UK

3 Mln Children in Sudan Suffer from Malnutrition

International organizations said that about three million children in Sudan are acutely malnourished, of which 650,000 suffer from severe acute malnutrition and need care. These children are mainly in Darfur and Kordofan states in western Sudan and the Red Sea region, east of the country. These areas have witnessed armed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Enough to feed a family of four’: Kenyans embrace urban farming as food worries rise

Facing supply shortages, price hikes and the prevalent use of dangerous pesticides, city-dwellers are turning to homegrown food

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The Conversation

Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues

More than a quarter of a million people died of hunger in Somalia in 2011 – half of them children younger than five. The situation in Somalia in the coming months could be a great deal worse, despite global commitments to never let the 2011 famine happen again.

The Guardian - AU

Inflation and inadequate welfare fuelling Australia’s food insecurity crisis, Foodbank finds

The charity’s annual Hunger Report estimates about 500,000 households on any given day struggle with getting enough to eat

The Guardian - UK

UK food banks at breaking point urge Liz Truss to boost aid to poorest

As cost of living crisis bites, 3,000 volunteers across several organisations sign letter of warning to the prime minister

Al Jazeera

India slips in Global Hunger Index, ranks 107 out of 121 nations

India has seen impressive economic growth in recent decades but it fares poorly on UN human development indices.

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The Independent UK

New report: A record 4.7 million Haitians face acute hunger

A new analysis says a record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger, including 19,000 in catastrophic famine conditions for the first time, all in a slum controlled by gangs in the capital of Port-Au-Prince

Miami Herald

US sending ‘elite’ disaster response team to Haiti amid calls for help

MIAMI — The U.S. Agency for International Development is deploying an elite disaster response team to Haiti “as insecurity, gang violence, and the humanitarian situation worsens” throughout the Caribbean nation, a U.S. official told McClatchy and the Miami Herald on Friday.

France 24

Somalia: The curse of famine

In the past few decades, Somalia’s droughts have increased both in intensity and in number due to climate change. It is now facing a famine that threatens the lives of millions of people, especially children. The United Nations says there are staggering levels of malnutrition among children under the age…

Daily Record

Scots need to pull together to avert food crisis as we face unprecedented levels of starvation

Record View says we have no adequate strategy to deal with the food crisis that will hit thousands of homes.

Daily Mirror

Sadiq Khan: 'Free school meals meant I never went hungry - we must feed our poorest kids'

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan writes in the Mirror about how we must protect our country's poorest kids by providing free school meals so they can thrive

Chicago Sun-Times

We can end hunger for all our neighbors

The nutrition safety net has strengthened in the 50 years since the White House last hosted a conference on hunger, particularly with USDA nutrition assistance programs.

Reuters

U.S. scrambles $60mln to aid struggling families in Tunisia

The United States is sending $60 million in "rapid assistance" to help struggling Tunisian families amid ongoing economic shocks that have plagued the North African nation and been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.

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