Category: Food Insecurity

Guterres delivers message of ‘hope and renewal’ for Somalia

12 April 2023 UN chief António Guterres on Wednesday reaffirmed the world body’s commitment to supporting the Horn of Africa country as it continues on its path to establishing lasting peace and stability. “Somalia faces many challenges, but in the spirit of Ramadan, I also bring a message of hope and renewal – the United Nations stands in solidarity […]

Transforming how we eat, ‘a critical accelerator’ towards 2030 development goals: Deputy UN chief

© UNICEF/Safidy Andrianantenain A farmer works in a women’s community garden in Androy region, Madagascar. 3 February 2023 SDGs Countries will review progress towards transforming food systems worldwide at a three-day meeting in Rome this July, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister announced on Friday, in the Italian capital.  The so-called UN […]

As famines of ‘biblical proportion’ loom, Security Council urged to ‘act fast’

FAO/IFAD/WFP/Michael TeweldeIn 2019, Ethiopia experienced the fifth-worst food crisis of all the countries on earth.     The world is not only facing “a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe”, the UN food relief agency chief told the Security Council on Tuesday via video link. WFP Chief warns of hunger pandemic as #COVID19 spreads. […]

South Sudan famine threat: UN food security agency in ‘race against time’

WFP/Gabriela Vivacqua A woman and her family wade through a flooded plain to reach their home in Thaker, Unity state, South Sudan. The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning against potential famine in South Sudan as hunger deepens due to drought, floods and an uncertain political future. WFP fears more than 5.5 million people could be going hungry in early 2020, and the UN […]

One-third of Afghans need urgent humanitarian aid, millions suffer ‘acute food insecurity’

Over the last three months (August to October 2019), around one-third of the Afghan population required urgent humanitarian action, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert, released on Monday, which declares that some 10.23 million people are living in a state of “severe acute food insecurity”. The IPC, a coalition of […]