Topic: Poverty and hunger
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.
Hunger deaths aren’t simply about famine or no famine
Blog / 9th February 2021Focus on loss of life – and urgently trying to prevent it – rather than whether a famine has been declared, writes Daniel Maxwell et al for The New Humanitarian.
Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this
Article / 29th January 2021Every year, US$88.6 billion leaves Africa in the form of illicit capital flight according to the 2020 report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm on inequality that everyone can hear
Blog / 29th January 2021As billionaire wealth soars during the pandemic, we may have seen the greatest ever single-year redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy. Influencers worldwide need to be sounding the alarm, writes Sam Pizzigati.
‘Footprint Justice’ and ‘Fair Earth Shares’ is getting more attention
Article / 26th January 2021The campaign for 'Footprint Justice' is gathering momentum with a call for UN member states to investigate the legal implications of enshrining a 'Fair Earth Share' as a human right.
Mega-rich recoup COVID-losses in record-time yet billions will live in poverty for at least a decade
Report / 25th January 2021The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just nine months, but it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, reveals Oxfam.
Millions on the brink of starvation as the pandemic exacerbates world hunger
Article / 22nd January 2021David Beasley of the World Food Program and Henrietta Fore of UNICEF discuss the enormous challenge of feeding the world's hungry in light of the coronavirus pandemic.