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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday (December 11, 2023) that acute hunger is set to soar globally, on the back of “massive underfunding” in agriculture support programmes during times of crisis. more
World entering a ‘humanitarian doom loop’, warns UN food aid official

New York: Russia has not offered any free grain to the UN food relief agency so far, and its policy of buying supplies from Ukraine has been based on its competitive price and quality, a ...

UN-brokered grain and fertilizer deals ‘indispensable’ to global food security

New York: The food and fertilizer export deals brokered by the UN last year with Ukraine and Russia have played an “indispensable role” in supporting global food security and ...

UN humanitarians complete first food distribution in Khartoum as hunger, threats to children, intensify

New York: For the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan on 15 April, humanitarians have been able to reach desperate families trapped in the conflict’s epicentre, Khartoum, w ...

Continued urgent action needed to prevent food and nutrition crisis from worsening

New York: As millions worldwide continue to go hungry, leaders of five international humanitarian, banking and trade organizations on Wednesday appealed for further urgent action to preve ...

Ukraine: FAO and EU in $15.5 million bid to avert food crisis threat

New York: In Ukraine, the country’s farmers and smallholders urgently need more support to avoid a food crisis, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday, as ...

Peru’s food crisis grows amid soaring prices and poverty: FAO

New York: Peru has become the most food-insecure country in South America, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.

Global food crisis: Let’s move from ‘despair to hope and action’, urges Guterres

New York: In the face of the growing hunger crisis, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization stressed on Friday, ahead of World Food Day, the need to “harness the power ...

Join forces to prevent ‘food availability crisis’ urges FAO chief

New York: As the war in Ukraine stokes a crisis for countries who are struggling just to access the food their populations want and need, the international community needs to ensure that ...

Cost of living crisis hits poorest the hardest, warns UNCTAD

New York: Billions of people are facing the greatest cost of living crisis in a generation due to rising food and energy prices amid rapid inflation and increasing debt, leaving the most ...