food crisis

Various conflicts like the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have destabilised Europe’s stable food supply chain. Photo: Bloomberg
Bloomberg Special

Europe is wargaming a food crisis

The year is 2024. “Food shortage in Europe? The only question is when, but they don’t listen,” says an unidentified voice in a video broadcast. The audience sits quietly — listening

Photo: WFP/Michael Tewelde
World+Biz

Sudan soon to be 'world's largest hunger crisis': WFP

A Palestinian child reacts, while people gather to get their share of charity food offered by volunteers, amid food shortages, as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 2 December 2023. Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

Gazans resort to animal feed and rice for survival

Photo: Collected
World+Biz

UN calls for oversight as crop trading worsens food crisis

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
World+Biz

Poor states use food crisis fight to get big power attention at UN

Alexander V Mantytskiy, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Sketch: TBS
Panorama

Most acute food crises provoked by the US and its allies

Illustration: Collected
Bloomberg Special

Inflation crisis pulls European countries into a food fight

Photo: Courtesy
Corporates

Winners named in contest on food crisis response

A worker unloads boxes of onions at an open market in Algiers, Algeria. Source: AFP/Getty Images via Bloomberg
World+Biz

Onion shortage threatens a new chapter in world food crisis

FILE PHOTO: Somali displaced mother Binti Moalim Hassan lays beside her malnourished 3-year-old daughter Faduma in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
World+Biz

Hunger levels in West and Central Africa set to hit all-time high - UN

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Closing Session on Promoting Food Security and Food Systems Resilience, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S. December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno
Global Economy

US announces $2.5 billion in food assistance for Africa

FILE PHOTO: Somali displaced mother Binti Moalim Hassan lays beside her malnourished 3-year-old daughter Faduma in a hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
Africa

Africa's food crisis is the biggest yet – five reasons why

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a section of the Al-cadaala camp of the internally displaced people following the famine in Somalia's capital Mogadishu March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo
Africa

Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens