food crisis

Jamie McGoldrick, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, holds press briefing.
UN OCHA Yemen (file)

News in Brief 07 December 2017 (PM)

7 December 2017
News in Brief

Fuel “trickling in” but not enough to deliver aid to stricken Yemenis

Life-saving fuel is “trickling in” to Yemen once more following the partial lifting of a Saudi-led blockade, but it’s not enough to deliver vital aid to millions around the country.

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An aerial shot shows thousands of new Rohingya refugee arrivals crossing the border near Anjuman Para village, Palong Khali, Bangladesh.
UNHCR/Roger Arnold

News in Brief 17 October 2017 (AM)

17 October 2017
News in Brief

UNHCR concerned about stranded Rohingya refugees

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North Korea’s food production hit by the worst drought since 2001.
FAO/Cristina Coslet

DPRK drought affecting food production: FAO

20 July 2017
General News

Food production in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been severely damaged by the worst drought in the country since 2001, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Thursday.

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Ajok Ding Deng is a mother of five who lives in the village of Mayen Adut, South Sudan. Here she stands with her youngest child, Abuk Mor, and her husband, who is carrying a box of SuperCereal Plus the family has just received from WFP. WFP
George Fominyen

Faced with rise in violence in South Sudan, aid alone "isn’t enough"

12 April 2017
General News

While humanitarian support has saved “countless” lives, ongoing fighting in South Sudan continues to make difficult the rollout of aid programmes, according to the Regional Director for Eastern and Central Africa at the World Food Programme (WFP)

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A woman buys dates at the market in the town of Bol on the outskirts of Lake Chad.
OCHA/Pierre Peron

One of world’s worst humanitarian crises “struggling for attention”

23 September 2016
General News

One of world’s worst humanitarian crises underway in the Lake Chad Basin is “struggling for attention” according to the Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, Jan Eliasson.

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International Year of Pulses (IYP) Special Ambassador Jenny Chandler and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy.
FAO/Giulio Napolitano

Power of the pulse celebrated in new cook book

27 May 2016
General News

People around the world are being encouraged by the UN to get passionate about the power of the pulse…that’s pulse as in peas, beans and lentils.

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Displaced Central African Republic families in Mpoko site for internally displaced persons. File
OCHA/Gemma Cortes.

Conflict in CAR leaves 2.5 million people facing hunger

20 January 2016
General News

Nearly half of all people in the Central African Republic (CAR) are at risk of going hungry.

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WFP distributes food in Madinat Al Shaab district Yemen, in August 2015. Since April 2015, WFP has reached more than 2 million conflict-affected and severely food insecure people in thirteen of Yemen’s governorates. File
WFP/Ammar Bamatraf

“Deliberate starving” of civilians in Yemen

14 August 2015
General News

A human rights expert has sounded the alarm on what she called the “deliberate starvation” of civilians in Yemen.

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UN Photo / Jean-Marc Ferré

UN seeks $38 million to respond to Lesotho’s food crisis

28 September 2012
The United Nations today appealed for $38.5 million to help 725,000 people – a third of the population – in the small African country of Lesotho who are affected by a food crisis.

UN issues policy guide for countries hit hard by high food prices

26 January 2011
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is calling on countries to carefully examine the implications of high food prices and not to take any policy actions that might appear useful in the short term but could have harmful, longer-term effects or even aggravate the situation.