カテゴリー: Food security
Gas shortages and rising food prices mean many who came to the capital for work cannot afford to eat. Going home is now their only optionAt 9am on a Saturday, 35-year-old Raju Prasad rushes through Anand Vihar railway station in Delhi, a heavy bag slun…
Aid cuts mean the ethnically-cleansed refugees from Myanmar face a return to cooking over toxic flames, or keeping children out of school to spend all day scouring for firewoodFour years ago the US recognised the genocide of my people, and nations arou…
Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go roundGurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would touch his quiet corner of Punjab.Yet looking out over h…
Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events and US aid cuts have left many feeling vulnerableWhen the monsoon rains came last September, they swept away most of the village of Panauti, in …
Restoring age-old land rights has enabled 300 villagers to build a profitable business and halt the exodus to the cityIt’s late morning and the sound of axes clacking against wood echoes through Pachgaon’s bamboo forest in the central Indian state of M…
Calls for drastic overhaul of funding as conflicts and climate crisis drive surge in humanitarian needs and appeals fall shortThe queue for water at Metche, a camp of 40,000 refugees on the Sudan-Chad border, starts at dawn and lasts until sunset. The …
After India imposed an export ban on rice following destructive rains, prices have soared – now other countries across south-east Asia are following suitNormally by mid-August Thongpoon Moonchansong’s fields are submerged in still waters, with scattere…
Traders close shops, electricity bills are set alight and utility firm staff are attacked as anger rises over living costs and political strifeProtests against rising electricity and petrol prices have rocked Pakistan over the past week, with thousands…
Close to half the crisis-hit country’s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell here of their struggle as Unicef warns of a blighted generation For more than a year now, Anne Roshel has had no milk to give her two childre…
Laheri Bai’s seed bank ensures traditional grains are kept alive amid a wider effort to promote millet’s suitability for cultivation in challenging climate conditionsCollecting seeds in her mud-walled farmhouse home in central India has pushed Laheri B…
Officials say it will leave in May if Taliban cannot be persuaded to let local women work for organisationThe UN is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it cannot persuade the Taliban to let local women work f…
Lost jobs and soaring prices have pushed 5m Pakistanis to the edge. As demand soars at Ramadan, charities cannot copeThere is a crowd outside the Khana Ghar food kitchen. Men wait patiently on one side as a group of women push forward, clutching photoc…
South Korea warns that death from starvation appears to be rising in many of the North’s provincesThe major North Korean state newspaper Rodong Sinmun has said that relying on external aid to cope with food shortages would be the same as taking “poison…
Drought, economic collapse and soaring food prices have pushed millions into hunger. Cash aid from the Disasters Emergency Committee is helping families feed their children and send them back to school Continue reading…