News, comment and features on food security, food insecurity and food scarcity in the developing world
August 2024
British firms strive to create a buzz around insect farming
Opinion
Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty
Kevin Watkins
July 2024
Greening the desert: is Sisi’s grand plan using up all of Egypt’s water?
Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN
‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic
A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’
Seascape: the state of our oceans
‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat
Weatherwatch: Buckwheat, miracle crop for a future of extreme heat
Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation
June 2024
The Guardian view on the climate crisis and heatwaves: a killer we need to combat
Editorial: Britain may be chilly, but from Greece to India, people are dying due to record temperatures. The death toll will grow without urgent action
May 2024
A common condition
‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands
Increasingly frequent natural disasters leave islanders reliant on processed foods for months on end – with deeply concerning knock-on effects to health
‘If they see a Syrian, they beat them up’: the refugees living in fear in Lebanon
The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia’s Wayúu people live on land rich in resources. So why are their children dying of hunger?
State failures in La Guajira have compounded water shortages that bring malnutrition and death
April 2024
UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather
Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns
March 2024
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home
Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slum
Fresh blow for Rwanda deportation plan as report shows extreme poverty and hunger
Foreign Office paper says not enough being done, with over half the population living on less than $1.90 a day
Onions sell for 50 times usual price in Gaza as Palestinians scramble for food
The alternatives
Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference
Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers