Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
The lives of half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk, international aid agencies said on Friday, as the worst drought in decades forces thousands of people to flee their homes each day. High food prices and the driest years since the early 1950s have pushed …
This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion. Behind each of these, slow-burn crises smoulder: creeping and insidious climate change, growing inequality, chronic hunger and vulnerability, the erosion of our natural resources.
This report analyses major new developments regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in various regions around the world, including new evidence and testimony from Friends of the Earth International’s member groups. This 2011 edition focus particularly on pesticide use, increasing public and legal opposition to GMOs, and the biotech industry’s move …
Operation Flood was the world's largest and most ambitious dairy development programme in India. Did Operation Flood represent the creative use of European (and other) dairy surpluses undermine domestic production? (Letters)
This guide stresses that low-income, food-deficit countries have been hit hard by high food prices in recent years. Many of these countries have to pay larger food import bills when food prices are soaring. Almost all countries in Africa are net importers of cereals. The people most affected by higher …
The 2011 Hunger Report covers the role of the United States in mobilizing global commitments to increase investments in agriculture, food security, and nutrition in developing countries. A dramatic rise in hunger and poverty in the wake of volatile food prices in 2007 and 2008 led to Feed the Future, …
Lack of food has been the source of many past and recent conflicts. Food insecurity has clearly been a factor behind outbreaks of social unrest or worse, yet conflict also has induced notable instances of food insecurity. Conflict often involves competition over control of the factors of food production, primarily …
The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects. While these …
US $1 TRILLION WORTH OF MINERALS Afghanistan is suddenly richThe Pentagon recently announced that Afghanistan is sitting on mineral wealth worth US $1 trillion—about 1,000 times the government’s annual revenue. The untapped mineral deposits, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, a key raw material for laptop, cell phone and …
Food security in 70 developing countries is estimated to have improved between 2009 and 2010, in part due to economic recovery in many of these countries. The number of food-insecure people in the developing countries analyzed by ERS researchers is estimated to decrease about 7.5 percent from 2009 to 882 …
Mata Amritanandamayi Math has declared flood relief to the tune of Rs 50 crore for Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. This was announced at a press briefing held at Bangalore by Abhayamrita Chaithanya, pro-chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. A team of brahmacharis and devotees will carry out the relief work which …
For years, anti-poverty campaigners railed against low commodity prices, which depressed farmers' incomes in developing countries. In recent months, the world price of virtually all staples has shot up, but the activists are still not cheering. They worry that this boom (intensified by "green" subsidies for biofuel crops) may worsen …
The Government of Japan has decided to provide 340 million Japanese Yen as food aid grant to the Maldives. The Exchange of Notes between the Governments of Japan and Maldives was signed on September 15, 2009 at the Ministry of Foreign Affair. H.E Mr. Kunio Takahashi, Ambassador of Japan to …
As Number Of Starving People Hits All-Time High, Food Aid Is At 20-Yr Low: UN London: Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the UN relief agency said on Wednesday. The number of hungry people …
Food security is defined as economic access to food along with food production and food availability. Agriculture in the SAR (South Asian Region) is caught in a low equilibrium trap with low productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, high prices, low returns to farmers and area diversification - all these factors …
The Roman Catholic church has agreed to extend its help to the state which is struggling to ensure proper distribution of foodgrain to the poor and the needy in the wake of acute drought conditions in most parts of Jharkhand. T.P. Sinha, the adviser to Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, made a …
The draft of the National Food Security Act is going to be presented before Parliament in the winter session. This was one of the main promises made by the Indian National Congress in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, 2009. As per the proposed Act, the most vulnerable sections …
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today cancelled its much-hyped public meeting scheduled here in the afternoon because of the fresh bout of landslides that struck the hills. The party top brass, however, continues to be tight-lipped on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh, who was elected MP from Darjeeling with Morcha support, …
Controversies surrounding the midday meal scheme have prompted the state to consider handing over the job of preparing and distributing food among schoolchildren to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) and NGOs. Iskcon is already in charge of midday meal in Bangalore, Karnataka, on behalf of the state government …
