A vital, US-run monitoring system focused on spotting food crises before they turn into famines has gone dark after the Trump ...

According to Vaclav Smil, the problem in much of the world is not too little food but too much, which leads to high rates of ...

The conflict in Sudan has created the "largest and the most devastating humanitarian crisis in the world" as the warring ...

UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) February 17, 2025 Advertisement The U.N. World Food Program said Monday that famine has been confirmed in more than 10 locations in Sudan, with another 17 areas on the ...

U.N. says 2.3 billion people severely or moderately hungry in 2021 A new U.N. report says world hunger rose in 2021, with around 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining ...

Palestinians feared hunger and increased food prices after Israel stopped the entry of all goods and humanitarian assistance ...

FEWS NET was created following the 1984 famine in Ethiopia, which killed an estimated 400,000 to 1 million people – and caught the world off guard. President Ronald Reagan then challenged the US ...

Instead, he cites reams of evidence to show that famine is not imminent ... He describes “How to Feed the World” as “a focused, strongly quantitative evaluation of the basics” of the ...