Food security
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Bangladesh, Dubai, Food security, Global development, Global health, Humanitarian response, India, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Somalia, South and Central Asia, Strait of Hormuz, Sudan, US-Israel war on Iran, World news, Yemen
Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of peop…
- Delhi, Food security, Fuel poverty, Gas, Global development, India, Middle East and North Africa, Migration, South and Central Asia, US-Israel war on Iran, World news
‘I’ve not had proper food for days’: migrant workers leave India’s cities as Iran war fuel crisis deepens
Gas shortages and rising food prices mean many who came to the capital for work cannot afford to eat. Going ho…
- Aid, Bangladesh, Food security, Global development, Global education, Global health, Human rights, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
In the Rohingya refugee camps, we really want you to keep the gas running | Ajas Khan
Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or kee…
- Farming, Food, Food security, India, Oil, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, US-Israel war on Iran, World news
‘India is going to face a food crisis’: Farmers panic over fertiliser shortages amid Iran war
Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments sayin…
- Aid, Business, Climate crisis, Earthquakes, Environment, Extreme weather, Flooding, Food security, Global development, Humanitarian response, Infrastructure, Mountains, Natural disasters, Nepal, Nepal earthquake 2015, Society, South and Central Asia, US foreign policy, USAid, World news
‘If I had to choose, I’d prefer the earthquake’: the 2015 disaster left Nepal in ruins, now record rains wreak fresh havoc
Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events an…
- Employment, Environment, Food security, Global development, India, Indigenous peoples, Society, South and Central Asia, Trees and forests, World news
Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity
Restoring age-old land rights has enabled 300 villagers to build a profitable business and halt the exodus to …
- Afghanistan, Employment, Food security, Global development, Global health, Human rights, Law, Prisons, Sexual violence, Social protection, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work banDestitute A…
- Afghanistan, Africa, Aid, Business, Chad, Darfur, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Economics, Food security, Global development, Humanitarian response, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Middle East and North Africa, Refugees, Society, South and Central Asia, Sudan, United Nations, World news
‘We’re playing Whac-A-Mole’: why the aid system is broken
Calls for drastic overhaul of funding as conflicts and climate crisis drive surge in humanitarian needs and ap…
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, El Niño southern oscillation, Environment, Food, Food security, Global development, India, Rice, Society, South and Central Asia, Thailand, World news
‘Major disruptor’: El Niño threatens the world’s rice supplies
After India imposed an export ban on rice following destructive rains, prices have soared – now other countrie…
- Access to energy, Business, Cost of living crisis, Food security, Global development, Imran Khan, Pakistan, Protest, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Pakistan in uproar as protests over soaring energy prices turn violent
Traders close shops, electricity bills are set alight and utility firm staff are attacked as anger rises over …
- Children, Food security, Global development, Malnutrition, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka
No milk, no eggs, small hope: fears rise for Sri Lanka’s malnourished children
Close to half the crisis-hit country’s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell…
- Environment, Farming, Food, Food security, Global development, India, Indian food and drink, Indigenous peoples, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
How India’s ‘millet ambassador’ preserves ancient grains – and helps promote food security
Laheri Bai’s seed bank ensures traditional grains are kept alive amid a wider effort to promote millet’s suita…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Food security, Global development, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
UN ready for ‘heartbreaking’ decision to pull out of Afghanistan
Officials say it will leave in May if Taliban cannot be persuaded to let local women work for organisationThe …
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‘We’d have died of hunger’: street kitchens feed millions in Pakistan
Lost jobs and soaring prices have pushed 5m Pakistanis to the edge. As demand soars at Ramadan, charities cann…
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‘Poisoned candy’: North Korean state media shuns food aid despite hunger crisis
South Korea warns that death from starvation appears to be rising in many of the North’s provincesThe major No…