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Food security

News, comment and features on food security, food insecurity and food scarcity in the developing world

March 2024

  • Jamer, 12, helps to collect water several miles from his home in La Guajira

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘There aren’t seasons any more’: a childhood without water in north Colombia

    The Wayúu people of La Guajira have always faced water scarcity. But now severe drought has brought disease and a shortage of food

February 2024

  • A row of small children eat soup, one helped by an adult

    ‘Fight waste to fight hunger’: food banks embrace imperfection to feed millions in Brazil

  • FILE - Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children's agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

    Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says

  • Farmers staged a protest against cheap meat imports in Dover at the weekend: green tractor pulling trailer with straw bales on it and a sign reading 'Back British Farmers'. White chalk cliffs and cliffside buildings are seen in the background.

    English farmers to be offered ‘largest ever’ grant scheme amid food security concerns

  • Farmers gather outside the European Parliament for a protest, in Strasbourg, eastern Farmers gather outside the European Parliament for a protest, in Strasbourg, eastern France, as yellow banners and signs are held aloft.

    ‘Symbol of polarisation’: EU scraps plans to halve use of pesticides

  • We must act on Ethiopia food crisis, says UK minister

  • The pharmacist who sells onions: Palestinians go hydroponic in Jordan’s ‘Gaza camp’

  • Fibre-rich, with fewer farts: how the underrated mung bean could improve food security (and post-bean bloat)

January 2024

  • A man stands with his pet cat amid the rubble of devastated buildings in central Gaza.

    Middle East thrust into ‘apocalyptic’ humanitarian crisis by war and turmoil

  • A displaced Yemeni child carries water containers donated by Unicef at a camp near Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.

    US-UK airstrikes force aid agencies to suspend operations in Yemen

  • Close up of nets as seagulls follow a prawn trawler

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Tories urged to end ‘idiotic’ £1.8bn tax break for UK fishing fleet

  • People seen in a line behind water containers

    ‘We’re playing Whac-A-Mole’: why the aid system is broken

December 2023

  • The skyscraper complex at the heart of the Red Sea megacity Neom in Saudi Arabia

    Printable DNA to bird-bashing towers: 15 looming issues for biodiversity in 2024

  • Prepared grasshoppers, or nsenene in Luganda, on sale at a stall in the Kamwokya district of Kampala, Uganda.

    Where have all the grasshoppers gone? Uganda’s insect traders struggle to find protein-rich bugs

November 2023

  • A boy stands next to a tree in Barmil.

    We call for urgent action to tackle food insecurity

  • An armyworm devours a farmer's maize in Kenya

    ‘Stop this obscenity’: could key UK summit turn tide on world hunger?

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    Health and climate
    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

  • A girl collects water in a plastic bottle from a shallow river next to a donkey pulling a cart

    Health and climate
    ‘Paying in lives’: health of billions at risk from global heating, warns report

  • Human-caused heating behind extreme droughts in Syria, Iraq and Iran, study finds

  • A common condition
    Global health and environmental costs of food industry are $10tn a year – UN

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