UN food assessment shows over 1.8 million in Gaza face extreme hunger
Oct 18, 2024, at 06:50 pm
More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed and livelihoods decimated during the ongoing Israeli military offensive, a UN-backed food security assessment released on Thursday has revealed.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization wars acute hunger set to soar across the globe
Dec 12, 2023, at 01:25 pm
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday that acute hunger is set to soar globally, on the back of “massive underfunding” in agriculture support programmes during times of crisis.
Global agrifood systems are the climate solution, new FAO report highlights
Dec 02, 2023, at 10:32 pm
Agrifood systems and the communities that support and depend on them are on the front lines of loss and damage linked to climate change, a new report released on Friday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed.
Afghanistan: WFP forced to cut food aid for 2 million more
Sep 06, 2023, at 06:12 pm
Food assistance to two million people in Afghanistan will have to be cut later this month, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
World entering a ‘humanitarian doom loop’, warns UN food aid official
Jul 29, 2023, at 09:13 pm
New York: Russia has not offered any free grain to the UN food relief agency so far, and its policy of buying supplies from Ukraine has been based on its competitive price and quality, a senior WFP official said on Friday.
UN-brokered grain and fertilizer deals ‘indispensable’ to global food security
Jul 08, 2023, at 10:41 pm
New York: The food and fertilizer export deals brokered by the UN last year with Ukraine and Russia have played an “indispensable role” in supporting global food security and must continue, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday.
May 31, 2023, at 10:32 pm
New York: For the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan on 15 April, humanitarians have been able to reach desperate families trapped in the conflict’s epicentre, Khartoum, with food assistance, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
Continued urgent action needed to prevent food and nutrition crisis from worsening
Feb 10, 2023, at 07:11 pm
New York: As millions worldwide continue to go hungry, leaders of five international humanitarian, banking and trade organizations on Wednesday appealed for further urgent action to prevent the global food and nutrition crisis from worsening.
Global food crisis putting millions of young lives at risk
Jan 13, 2023, at 11:23 pm
New York: Five UN agencies on Thursday called for urgent action to protect millions of malnourished children in the 15 countries hardest hit by the unprecedented food and nutrition crisis.
Ukraine: FAO and EU in $15.5 million bid to avert food crisis threat
Jan 06, 2023, at 08:30 pm
New York: In Ukraine, the country’s farmers and smallholders urgently need more support to avoid a food crisis, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday, as it announced a $15.5 million initiative to help them.
Peru’s food crisis grows amid soaring prices and poverty: FAO
Nov 19, 2022, at 12:13 am
New York: Peru has become the most food-insecure country in South America, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.
Global food crisis: Let’s move from ‘despair to hope and action’, urges Guterres
Oct 15, 2022, at 05:47 pm
New York: In the face of the growing hunger crisis, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization stressed on Friday, ahead of World Food Day, the need to “harness the power of solidarity and collective action” to build a sustainable world with enough to eat for everyone.
Join forces to prevent ‘food availability crisis’ urges FAO chief
Sep 30, 2022, at 01:14 am
New York: As the war in Ukraine stokes a crisis for countries who are struggling just to access the food their populations want and need, the international community needs to ensure that doesn’t spill over into a “food availability crisis”, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.
Cost of living crisis hits poorest the hardest, warns UNCTAD
Jul 20, 2022, at 07:50 pm
New York: Billions of people are facing the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation due to rising food and energy prices amid rapid inflation and increasing debt, leaving the most vulnerable consumers in a dire situation, said the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD on Tuesday.
UN and partners meet to address ‘critical’ state of global food crisis
Jul 19, 2022, at 06:32 pm
New York: Scaling up climate resilience across food systems is among the actions needed to counter rising hunger and malnutrition, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid said on Monday, at a special meeting to address the global food crisis.
Act now to end food, energy and finance crisis, Guterres urges world leaders
Jun 09, 2022, at 11:40 pm
New York: Ripple effects from the war in Ukraine have generated a severe cost-of-living crisis which no country or community can escape, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday at a press conference to launch the latest report on the conflict’s impacts on food security, energy, and financing.
Better prevention and targeting of root causes needed to combat food crises
May 05, 2022, at 07:53 pm
New York: The number of people facing acute food insecurity, requiring urgent life-saving food assistance and livelihood support, continues to grow at an alarming rate, according to a joint UN report released on Wednesday.
Guterres unveils first recommendations of UN crisis group, set up in wake of Ukraine invasion
Apr 06, 2022, at 05:37 pm
New York: António Guterres released the initial recommendations of his Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance (GCRG) on Tuesday, set up in response to the hunger crisis provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Northern Ethiopia: A record 9 million now need food assistance
Jan 29, 2022, at 07:17 pm
New York: After 15 months of conflict in Ethiopia, almost 40 per cent of Tigrayans are suffering an extreme lack of food, according to data released by the World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday.
35.8 million face lean season food crisis in West Africa and Sahel
Dec 08, 2021, at 11:01 pm
New York: Growing food insecurity that is already affecting tens of millions of people across West Africa and the Sahel, must not be ignored by the international community, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
Funding needed to halt ‘life threatening crisis’ facing refugees in Kenya
Dec 18, 2020, at 04:06 pm
New York: Amidst a “critical shortage” of resources, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya will lack food unless new funds are swiftly received, the UN’s food relief agency warned on Thursday.
Mar 27, 2019, at 09:10 am
New York, Mar 27 (IBNS): With Yemen now in its fifth year of conflict between pro-Government forces and Houthi rebels, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for “unhindered access” to the most desperate areas in the frontline regions “to prevent the food security situation deteriorating”.
Nearly 4 million North Koreans in urgent need of food, says UN
Mar 07, 2019, at 02:12 pm
New York, Mar 7 (UNI): The UN is calling for some $120 million to provide life-saving humanitarian aid, desperately needed by 3.8 million North Koreans, as it releases its 2019 Needs and Priorities Plan for the country.
South Sudan’s ‘relentless conflict’ leaves almost 60 per cent suffering desperate food crisis
Sep 29, 2018, at 07:36 am
New York, Sept 29 (IBNS):“Relentless conflict” in South Sudan has now left more than six million people facing crisis levels of hunger, three UN agencies have said, amid ongoing efforts to deliver aid to the war-weary country.