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The Latest Breaking News on Food Insecurity

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.

Al Jazeera

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

The Independent UK

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.

Miami Herald

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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…

France 24

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 Record

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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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.

Reuters

Portugal's charities struggle to cope with homelessness surge

Six months ago, Jose Moreno found himself without a roof over his head. Now wandering the streets of Lisbon, the 48-year-old said soaring food prices were making his life even tougher.

Reuters

Heartbroken staff at Edinburgh food bank warns they 'can't keep up with demand'

Now the service is desperate for donations and funds, and are collecting Christmas presents as this year many parents will be unable to afford gifts for their children.

Edinburgh Live

“An inverse tsunami”: How inflation and drought are making it harder to feed West Texans in need

Food banks across Texas are now struggling to keep up with growing demand even more than they were during the pandemic.

The Texas Tribune

Sudan Schools Crisis Threatens Grim Future for Children

It's the start of a new school term in Sudan, yet nine-year-old Zahra Hussein stays home helping with household chores, forced to drop out as her family's money grows ever tighter. Zahra quit primary school a year ago after she had just started third grade in a rundown school building…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rangers and Liverpool fans unite to deliver food bank goods to needy families

Fans Supporting Foodbanks and trade union Unite organised the donations to help support city residents suffering food poverty.

Daily Record

UN: 75% of 6 million Venezuelan migrants go unfed, unhoused

The United Nations says almost three-quarters of the 6 million Venezuelan migrants currently in Latin America lack adequate food, shelter, employment or medical care

The Independent UK

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Glasgow Live

Liverpool fans to bring food bank donations with them to Ibrox for Glasgow pantries

Football Fans Supporting Foodbanks has teamed with Unite the union ahead of tonight's Champions League match at Ibrox to bring together food for those in need across Glasgow.

Reuters

Chad climate disaster leaves record 2.1 million people hungry

Severe drought followed by the worst floods in 30 years have led to rocketing food prices and left a record 2.1 million people in Chad acutely hungry, according to United Nations agencies.

The Independent UK

Charities call on government to urgently increase number of free school meals

Feed the Future: Organisations partnering with The Independent’s Feed the Future campaign call for meals to be extended to all children in poverty

Evening Standard

Calls grow to give free school meals to all children in poverty

Special investigation: David Cohen talks to increasingly desperate parents queueing with empty shopping bags outside a school near Battersea Power Station

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The Guardian - UK

‘Overlapping shocks’ are undoing efforts to end hunger in Africa, UN warns

Urgent aid response needed as climate crisis, Covid, local conflicts and soaring fuel prices push millions more into hunger

WEKU

Unaffordable food and shortages risk instability in the birthplace of the Arab Spring

Tunisians face soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples, threatening to turn discontent in the North African country — the cradle of the Arab Spring protests — into larger turmoil.

The Independent UK

Empty shelves or unaffordable food: Tunisia's crisis deepens

Tunisians have been hit with soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Children face a hunger crisis – the government needs to act by providing more free school meals

Feed the Future: The Independent partners with the Food Foundation to call on the government to give meals to all schoolchildren living in poverty but who are not currently eligible

Evening Standard

Free school meals plea for every child living in poverty

Special investigation: Move would benefit Britain by £2.5billion over 20 years

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: Scale of hunger crisis facing London families revealed

Stolen food and empty lunchboxes as children go hungry - ES investigation

Miami Herald

In Haiti, factories close, school feedings are on hold and hunger is about to get worse

The armed men arrived at the two-story factory in Haiti’s rural Artibonite Valley, wielding AK-47s, followed by a hungry mob of hundreds.

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