food

Women carry emergency food supplies from a World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter that landed in Thanyang, South Sudan.
UNICEF/Holt

Cost of feeding hungry world surging due to conflicts and instability – UN agency

20 July 2017
Improved aid access, strengthened resilience and advances in food system networks could provide as much as $3.5 billion in annual cost savings at a time when humanitarian needs are skyrocketing in multiple complex emergencies across the globe, a new United Nations study has found.
Food market. File
World Bank/Maria Fleischmann

How food chain changes could help world’s undernourished

24 May 2017
General News

What we eat and how we produce it has a major negative impact on health and the environment and it’s high time the problem was addressed, UN-partner the EAT Foundation said on Wednesday.

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The small kitchen of Eat Offbeat in New York City. UN in Action image.

Refugee chefs teach New Yorkers to Eat Offbeat

10 May 2017
General News

New York City, where UN Headquarters is located, is often described as a “melting pot” due to its amazing mix of cultures.

People from all over the globe have found a home here, bringing with them their customs…and cuisines.

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Harvesting wheat near the West Bank town of Tammun.
FAO/Marco Longari

World food prices fall for third straight month, dip projected for grains – UN

4 May 2017
Food prices in April fell from the previous month led by lower sugar prices, the United Nations food agency today reported.
Two women farmers winnow rice on a farm in Mauritania.
FAO/Michela Paganini

Global food prices fall in March as sugar and vegetable oils slide – UN

6 April 2017
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today reported that global food prices fell in March amid large available supplies and expectations of strong harvests, and also projected “robust cereal harvests” in 2017.
A resident of Rabaable village in Somalia fetches water with the help of her daughters. The villages well was recently rehabilitated by UNICEF.
UNICEF Somalia/Sebastian Rich

UN, partners warn 108 million people face severe food insecurity worldwide

31 March 2017
Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people worldwide were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to a United Nations-backed report on food crises that offers benchmark for action needed to avoid catastrophe.
Harvesting rice in Viet Nam. Global rice consumption trends are rising.
FAO/Hoang Dinh Nam

UN agriculture agency takes step to help rice farmers bolster production

30 March 2017
Concerned about global rice production and eradicating hunger around the world, the United Nations agricultural agency today announced that it has teamed up with an international research institute to enhance rice farming and make it more adaptable to climate change.
The conflict continues to impact the humanitarian situation resulting in significant humanitarian needs. Seen here is a little girl waiting during food distribution (December 2013).
WFP/Dina El-Kassaby

David Beasley of United States appointed as head of UN emergency food agency

29 March 2017
The United Nations today announced the appointment of David Beasley of the United States as the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which delivers emergency food assistance around the world and works with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
Young boys head home after fishing for a day in the swamps of Nyal, South Sudan.
FAO/Lieke Visser

Hunger persists in chronic conflict zones despite strong global harvests – UN

2 March 2017
Despite robust food supply conditions, droughts are worsening food security across swathes of East Africa, and access to food has been dramatically reduced in areas suffering civil conflicts, a new United Nations report has found.
Farmers in a village in western Nepal's Surkhet district prepare land to plant turmeric.
IFAD/Sanjit Das/Panos

FAO report outlines multiple challenges to future food security

22 February 2017
General News

Increased pressures on natural resources, rising inequality and the effects of climate change are placing global food security “in jeopardy,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns.

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