food crisis

The World Meteorological Organization says above average temperatures are expected in many parts of the world in 2020.
WMO/Kabelo Tamocha

News in Brief 12 May 2020

12 May 2020
News in Brief
  • Tropics, northern hemisphere facing hotter temperatures
  • COVID-19 pushes millions more in Middle East, North Africa into food crisis
  • Nigeria violence forces 23,000 refugees into Niger in a month
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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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Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos.
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.
The poorest of those most affected by high food prices spend over 75 per cent of their income on food

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.
Rising food prices are a serious problem in Gulf nations which are highly dependent on imports

Rising food prices highlight need to boost investment in agriculture – UN official

23 November 2010
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today stressed the need to boost investment in agriculture to ensure long-term food security, while also calling for urgent structural changes to the global food system.