World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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When too much isn’t enough: Does current food production meet global nutritional needs?
<p>Sustainably feeding the next generation is often described as one of the most pressing “grand challenges” facing the 21st century. Generally, scholars propose addressing this problem by
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UNICEF: Two million children in DRC are acutely malnourished
The UN children’s agency says at least two million children in the Democratic Republic of Congo face death from malnutrition unless aid reaches them. Al Jazeera went to Kitwit where about 25,000 displaced
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Zimbabwe: Wheat Supply Remains Critical
Zimbabwe's wheat supplies remain critical due to logistical challenges arising from failure by the National Railway of Zimbabwe to speedily move the grain from Beira, Mozambique. The Grain Millers Association
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Dirty deals threaten Kenya's food security, report says
A global index has singled out Kenya as one of the countries whose food security is undermined by various forms of corruption, underlining the impact graft has had on taxpayers' lives even as the government
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Zimbabwe says 'bye bye to maize imports' as farmers 'deliver over 1m tons' – report
Zimbabwe is reportedly now "food secure" and is likely not going to import maize as farmers have delivered over 1 million tons to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) after a "successful Command Agriculture
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Global Food Security Index 2018: building resilience in the face of rising food-security risks
The 2018 Global Food Security Index provides a worldwide perspective on which countries are most and least vulnerable to food insecurity and how resource risks increase vulnerability. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/EIU
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Plans to mechanize agriculture in Africa
Sustainable agricultural mechanization for food self-sufficiency in Africa, this is the new joint plan set up by the African Union and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Doubling
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Kenya hosts pan-African conference to promote climate resilience
A three-day pan African conference kicked off in Nairobi on Wednesday to explore new ways to boost climate resilience in a continent suffering from the negative impacts of rising atmospheric temperatures.
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Africa: Global Hunger Relief Back-Tracking, Especially in War Zones
World efforts to lower hunger to zero by 2030 are being negated by warfare and climate change, warn nutritionists. Their latest global index categorizes 51 nations, mainly in Asia and Africa, where hunger
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2018 Global Hunger Index: forced migration and hunger
The 2018 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made gradual, long-term progress in reducing overall hunger, but this progress has been uneven. Areas of severe hunger and undernutrition stubbornly