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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 …
Read MoreAfter 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…
Read MoreTraders 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…
Read MoreClose 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…
Read MoreLaheri 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…
Read MoreOfficials 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…
Read MoreLost 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…
Read MoreSouth 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…
Read MoreDrought, 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…
Read MoreThe ban on wheat exports highlights the effect a rapidly warming planet has on food security – and livelihoodsIt was his buffaloes that he was first worried about. As temperatures in the small village of Baras, deep in the Indian state of Punjab, began…
Read MoreShaji NM has devoted his life to collecting and farming tubers such as yam, cassava and taro, and promoting them across the countryKnown as “the tuber man of Kerala”, Shaji NM has travelled throughout India over the past two decades, sometimes inspecti…
Read MoreHalf a million people have sunk into poverty since the pandemic struck, with rising costs forcing many to cut back on foodCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSri Lanka is facing a deepening financial and humanitarian crisis with…
Read MoreAn economic crisis aggravated by conflict and drought have caused a collapse in food security since the Taliban takeover More than half of Afghanistan’s population is facing acute hunger as the country has been thrown into one of the world’s largest fo…
Read MoreAs sea levels rise, growers are employing innovative methods to adapt to saline soilsLike millions of people across Bangladesh, Anita Bala, 45, relies on a small plot of land to feed her family.But for years nothing would grow. Her husband farmed shrim…
Read MoreDesperation grows for those unable to access subsidised food, as worst hunger in two decades reported When India’s devastating second wave of Covid-19 struck in April, Nazia Habib Khan’s second marriage abruptly came to an end after a year of beatings …
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