The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), released on Monday, shows more than 85 percent of returnees fleeing Sudan will be acutely food insecure through the next lean season, starting April 2025. On Monday, United Nations agencies warned of a hunger crisis facing South Sudan, with returnees fleeing the Sudan war expected to have […]

The Brazilian president deemed it “unacceptable” that trillions of dollars are allocated to military expenditures. On Monday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva inaugurated the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing that eradicating hunger is essential to achieving a world at peace. RELATED: G20 Summit: Lula and Al Sisi Reject Attempts to […]

Shaun Hughes, WFP’s acting country director for South Sudan, said it can take months to turn pledged donor funds into food in the hands of hungry people in South Sudan. On Friday, the World Food Program (WFP) urgently appealed for 404 million U.S. dollars to support its humanitarian assistance operations in South Sudan in 2025 […]

Zimbabwe will launch a slaughter programme later this month of nearly 1,000 elephants to reduce pressure on natural resources and provide meat for local communities suffering from the devastating drought caused by the US weather Child, The Zimbabwean government reported this Friday. Related:Zimbabwe: On Course to End Cholera Outbreak “Zimbabwe has more elephants than we […]

Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director of the World Food Programme, expressed concern that the same catastrophic levels of hunger previously recorded in the northern areas could soon be reached in the southern Gaza Strip.

According to a recent poll published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which says that the number of people facing severe food and nutritional insecurity in Brazil fell from 33.1 million in 2022 to 8.7 million in 2023, from 15.5% of the population to 4.1%-. RELATED: Agri-Food Transformation Must Go Hand With Sustainability, […]

The chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Máximo Torero said that the transformation of agri-food systems must take into account sustainability, so that “Let us have good food today and tomorrow for all.” RELATED: FAO Establishes Priorities in Latin America and the Caribbean “If we are not careful […]

The director of the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (FRCS) expressed concern about the growing famine in Gaza. RELATED: At Least 40 Journalists Are Arbitrarily Detained by Israel “Hunger in Gaza serves as a stark reminder of the immense hardships civilians are enduring,” Jagan Chapagain wrote in X. “It takes a major, […]

At a meeting of the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri condemned Israel’s destruction of the food system in Gaza and urged an end to the “starvation campaign” there. RELATED: League of Arab States Welcomes Resistance of Palestinian Women He also […]

On Wednesday, the Israeli army prevented a convoy of 14 food trucks from entering the Gaza area. The shipment was made by the World Food Programme (WFP). RELATED: Gaza Strip: Israel Launched a New Wave of Airstrikes The cargo contained more than 200 tons of food that did not reach its destination because the convoy […]