Food security
- 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…
- Afghanistan, Aid, Food poverty, Food security, Global development, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Some days we eat grass’: families on the edge in Afghanistan’s food crisis – in pictures
Drought, economic collapse and soaring food prices have pushed millions into hunger. Cash aid from the Disaste…
- Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Farming, Food security, India, South and Central Asia, World news
India’s wheat farmers count cost of 40C heat that evokes ‘deserts of Rajasthan’
The ban on wheat exports highlights the effect a rapidly warming planet has on food security – and livelihoods…
- Agriculture, Climate crisis, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Farming, Food security, Global development, India, Plants, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘The tuber man of Kerala’ on a quest to champion India’s rare and indigenous crops
Shaji NM has devoted his life to collecting and farming tubers such as yam, cassava and taro, and promoting th…
- Business, Coronavirus, Economics, Food security, Global development, Global economy, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
‘There is no money left’: Covid crisis leaves Sri Lanka on brink of bankruptcy
Half a million people have sunk into poverty since the pandemic struck, with rising costs forcing many to cut …