Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and partners have agreed to fight food insecurity on the Continent under shared frameworks. The partners are the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Ms Vera Songwe, the Executive Secretary of ECA, in …
Egeland stressed that of this number, 450,000 were in Nigeria, 247,500 in Niger, 63,000 in Cameroon and 22,000 in Chad.He explained that 57 per cent of the funds needed to provide basic humanitarian needs were still lacking, six months after world leaders met to support the crisis in the Lake …
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of children suffering from life-threatening malnutrition across the Lake Chad Basin - about 800,000 - has soared since last year, and could spiral further as Boko Haram ramps up attacks in the region, an aid agency said on Tuesday. The jihadists’ brutal eight-year …
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Jose Graziano da Silva has warned that there is increasing hunger in Africa due to factors including prolonged drought, floods and conflicts. Graziano da Silva said this on Thursday while concluding a three day visit to Uganda where he held discussions …
Although short rains are expected in a month’s time, the National Drought Management Authority says it will not be enough to end a looming shortage. “Staple food prices remain high, and incomes from livestock and milk sales remain low. Food consumption will decline as more households increasingly rely on coping …
Africa's food market may be worth more than US$1 trillion each year by 2030, according to this latest report on the state of agriculture in Africa. Africa’s food market may be worth more than US$1 trillion each year by 2030, according to the latest Africa Agriculture Status Report. This will …
As low-income countries develop, people’s diets change. They tend to move from being high in cereals (maize, rice, wheat), starchy staples (potato, cassava, plantain) and fibre, to more westernised patterns that are high in sugars, fats and animal-source foods. This has been termed the nutrition transition. It is usually accompanied …
Achieving food security is of utter importance in any nation. However, food insecurity still exists in many developing countries, with Asia home to almost 65% of the world’s undernourished. This calls for urgent action. Studies that examine differences in food security performance among Asian countries are sparse. This book fills …
Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Huang Ping places a stone at the site of a weir dam wall, officially handing over a productive asset to the community of Shauke in Zvishavane yesterday Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Huang Ping places a stone at the site of a weir dam wall, officially handing …
The African Development Bank, AfDB, plans to invest about $24 billion over the next 10 years to accelerate the realisation of the food sufficiency agenda, its president, Akinwumi Adesina, said on Tuesday. Mr. Adesina, who said the investment would be through the Bank’s ‘Feed Africa Strategy’ would require paying attention …
UNITED Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) has raised an alarm over funding deficit to feed 320,000 refugees in Kigoma, saying it needs 23.6 million US dollars (about 52bn/-) between now and December to supply food to the immigrants. WFP Tanzania Country Representative Michael Dunford said in a statement in Dar …
The UN and international aid organizations on Monday decried the high malnutrition rates in Kenya. The organizations - Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, World Vision, Concern Worldwide and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said there are currently 420,000 children under the age of five who are facing acute malnutrition. …
Sanctions and the worst drought for almost two decades threaten to cause severe hardship for millions of people in North Korea, while the country’s leadership continues to plough scarce resources into its missile and nuclear programmes, according to UN agencies and those with contacts in the impoverished nation. A drought …
People suffering in Somalia's latest drought have fared better when donors deftly shift funding to emergency projects that help residents save money and stockpile food, a charity said on Tuesday. Severe drought in the Horn of Africa nation is expected to deepen until the October rainy season, and humanitarians are …
Food Security and Emigration: Why people flee and the impact on family members left behind in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras shows the need to invest in long-term programmes to discourage people in the Dry Corridor from emigrating, and to reduce the risks for emigrants and the impact on the …
60 per cent of ration shops routinely remain closed during working hours. New Delhi: A study on the status of the implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in Delhi has found that the public distribution system (PDS) is not working transparently. The study claimed that even four years …
It’s symbolised by dismal burgers and carbonised sausages served on paper plates with a splatter of ketchup. Yet with the great British summer well under way, Britons are this month set to throw away a staggering £428m worth of barbecue food, research reveals. In August the nation will brave the …
Africa’s humanitarian crises have continued to worsen in 2017, said a report released by the United Nations on Wednesday ahead of the World Humanitarian Day. “Twenty million Africans have been displaced from their homes and 44 million are acutely food insecure,” the report stated. It said the population displacement crisis …
The number of people who require humanitarian assistance in the second half of 2017 has increased to 8.5 million from 5.6 million estimates in January, the National Disaster Risk Management Commission disclosed. The commission has released a newly revised Humanitarian Document (HRD) based on the food security assessment conducted between …
Food insecurity in the Somali region of Ethiopia has worsened, putting 700,000 people on the verge of starvation, according to Oxfam International. The humanitarian organization says that about 8.5 million people across the country face a high risk of hunger, a 30 percent increase since the beginning of the year. …
