food crisis

Asylum seekers rescued from Libyan prisons and sent to Rwanda for processing, play at the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) Gashora transit centre, in Bugesera, eastern Rwanda June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana/File Photo
World+Biz

Food crisis will drive record displacement levels higher: UN refugee chief

A report by the UN body showed on Thursday that some 89.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, abuse and violence at the end of 2021

File photo of Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque
Bangladesh

No outcry for food in country: Razzaque

IMF urges countries to support vulnerable, avoid blanket subsidies as food, fuel prices soar
Global Economy

IMF urges countries to support vulnerable, avoid blanket subsidies as food, fuel prices soar

Somalis who fled drought-stricken areas sit at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Feb. 4, 2022. Two U.N. food agencies issued stark warnings on Monday, June 6, 2022 about multiple, looming food crises on the planet, driven by climate “shocks” like drought and worsened by the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine that have sent fuel and food prices soaring. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)
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UN: Climate shocks, war fuel multiple looming food crises

Nearly 8-mn in LatAm risk food insecurity: UN body
World+Biz

Nearly 8-mn in LatAm risk food insecurity: UN body

A customer buys vegetables at a stall inside a morning market in Beijing, China January 14, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang
Global Economy

WFP, FAO warn of looming widespread food crisis

African Union head Macky Sall on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: BSS/AFP
Africa

AU head tells Putin Africans 'victims' of Ukraine conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 16, 2022. Alexander Nemenov/Pool via REUTERS
Europe

Putin says Ukrainian grain can be exported through Belarus

Ears of wheat are seen in a field near the village of Hrebeni in Kyiv region, Ukraine July 17, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
Global Economy

UN chief sees progress over food crisis, but deal still some way off

Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

How global food crises work

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumdar. File Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

There will be no food crisis: Minister

Pay debt or feed people is hungry nations’ impossible choice
Analysis

Pay debt or feed people is hungry nations’ impossible choice

An employee operates a combine as he harvests wheat in a field near the village of Hrebeni in Kyiv region, Ukraine July 17, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
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Russia's Putin, Italy's Draghi discuss ways to help solve food crisis