Food waste index report 2024
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
Food Policy
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Weak and awaiting worse: villagers fear S.Sudan famine
About 800 kilometres (500 miles) from Juba, where a new conflict erupted in late 2013, the northern state of Bahr el Ghazal has some of the highest levels of malnutrition in the country. Achol Ri, a
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WFP Calls For $1bn To Combat Starvation In Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen
The World Food Programme (WFP) issued an "urgent call" on Monday for US$1 billion to help millions at risk of starvation in north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. WFP said that a total
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Ethiopia says only 1.7m people at risk of food aid shortage, not 7.8m
Ethiopia says the United Nations estimate of number of people who will be affected by an imminent shortage of emergency food aid has been overstated. The country’s Commissioner for Disaster Risk Management
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Ethiopia's emergency food aid to run out next month
Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid for 7.8 million people affected by drought at the end of this month, the UN has warned. Aid groups and the government are calling for help, but fear donor
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1.8 million people need food in Northeast
Nigeria said it will feed 1.8 million people in the country’s northeast where a militant insurgency has wrecked the local economy and pushed the population to the brink of famine. The federal government
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Funds shortage forces UN to cut emergency food aid for 400,000 in Nigeria
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has had to scale back plans for emergency feeding of 400,000 people in Boko Haram-hit northeast Nigeria due to funding shortfalls, a top U.N. official said
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Food and nutrition security in transforming Ghana: a descriptive analysis of national trends and regional patterns
In recent decades, Ghana has experienced high economic growth and transformation, which contributed to the nation achieving the Millennium Development Goal targets on reducing extreme poverty and hunger.
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Africa Corn Silos Overflow in South as Food Crisis Hits East
Africa’s corn harvest this year is a tale of two extremes as worries about overflowing silos and rotting crops in the south contrast with the east where supermarkets are running short of the staple food.
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'14 million in SA go to sleep hungry'
Durban – Almost 800 million people worldwide do not have enough to eat and 98% of these live in developing countries. And this, said The Hunger Project, was why World Hunger Day – its annual initiative
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Agriculture experts meet in Kenya to discuss food security in Africa
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Agricultural experts from across Africa kicked off a two-day conference in Nairobi on Wednesday to seek ways of enhancing food security amid severe drought in some countries. The