Multidimensional crisis of food insecurity in Sri Lanka, warns UN
With nearly 5.7 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Colombo faces a serious challenge with food shortages, fall in agricultural production and destruction of livelihoods
Israel’s illegal occupation and blockade of Gaza, 15 years on
Since 2007, Israel has cemented a blockade of Gaza in an act of illegal collective punishment. The blockade and accompanying military offensives have killed thousands of Palestinians, and devastated social and economic life in the enclave.
Report finds 193 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2021 and other stories
Today we look at the UN’s report on rising acute food insecurity, mass displacement amid violence and massacres in Darfur, and more
Nearly 193 million people faced food insecurity in 2021, says UN report
Wars and conflicts were directly responsible for the food insecurity faced by more than two-third (139 million) of the total affected population in 2021, claimed the Global Report on Food Crisis released on Wednesday
Colombian ex-military officers admit role in killing 120 civilians and other stories
Today we look at a public hearing in Colombia’s False Positives scandal, acute food insecurity and drought in the Horn of Africa, and more
Food Insecurity in Haiti, Tunisian journalists’ strike, and other stories
Today we look at the upcoming strike by Tunisian journalists; the unionization struggle of Starbucks workers in Seattle, US; and more
The MST has donated more than six thousand tons of food during the pandemic to fight hunger
Just during the Christmas Without Hunger campaign, the MST distributed food donations to 250,000 people in 24 Brazilian states
How did Nicaragua reduce hunger and malnutrition?
Despite crippling, unilateral sanctions and globally rising food prices, hunger levels in Nicaragua have been falling. How has this been achieved?
Famine looms over northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region as civil war re-escalates
With seasonal rains on the horizon, the one chance to avert a full blown famine in Tigray and parts of neighboring Amhara and Afar, already reeling under a severe food shortage, may be lost if the fighting does not cease
Hunger and food production in Nicaragua: how do we feed the people?
As hunger and food insecurity increases globally, the Sandinista government in Nicaragua has been working for the last decade to strengthen local food production and ensure food sovereignty in the face of sanctions
Workers suffer as US pandemic relief bill goes nowhere in Congress
As the COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control in the United States, inaction and deadlock in the government have left workers to fend for themselves amid mounting unemployment.
To combat “hunger pandemic” MST has donated more than 600 tons of food
Kelli Mafort, one of the movement’s leaders, reinforces the importance of solidarity in order to save lives
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