Topic: Poverty and hunger
Acute food insecurity soars to five-year high
News / 5th May 2021The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, according to the findings of an annual report by the Global Network Against Food Crises.
Governments should give single day's military spending to fight hunger
News / 21st April 2021Aid organisations call on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger. Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help most at risk.
Second edition of STWR's flagship book now available: ‘Heralding Article 25’
News / 31st March 2021Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have released a revised second edition of the campaigning book by Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi, titled 'Heralding Article 25: A people's strategy for world transformation'.
Vaccine nationalism is patently unjust
Article / 26th March 2021Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill. It is perhaps the worst display of national selfishness in modern history, writes Nanjala Nyabola for the Nation.
Acute hunger set to soar in over 20 countries, warn FAO and WFP
News / 26th March 2021Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) in a new report on hunger hotspots.
A moral failure: billions of people with no access to clean drinking water
Article / 23rd March 2021As the UN commemorates World Water Day, Volkan Bozkir - President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly - highlights the moral failure of providing this most basic need to all.
Yemen: Famine around the corner, says World Food Programme
News / 15th March 2021People in Yemen face famine unless the world takes immediate action, the World Food Programme has warned at a high-level fundraising conference.
Curb food waste and save the planet
Blog / 8th March 2021Nearly a billion tonnes of food - a fifth of worldwide production - is binned each year, according to new UN research in support of global efforts to halve food waste by 2030.
Covid-19 and fragile states: Deaths underreported, health services overwhelmed and famine looming
Report / 5th March 2021The coronavirus pandemic is pushing people in fragile states towards catastrophe, with hunger levels rising dramatically and famine looming in several countries, an in-depth report by the Disasters Emergency Committee’s coalition of leading UK aid agencies.
The Earth does not belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
Article / 12th February 2021The new U.S. administration should begin with an honest accounting of the abundance so unequally hoarded in the nation's coffers, followed by a plan to share it more fairly. By Rev Dr Liz Theoharis for TomDispatch.