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Food security

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

August 2024

  • A white man in a suit bnext to Brazil's flag gestures while speaking at a conference

    Opinion
    Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty

    Kevin Watkins
    At its recent summit, Lula gave the G20 a chance to show its commitment to real change – and Britain can take the lead, says Kevin Watkins

July 2024

  • Future of Three tractors with Egyptian flags ploughing lush green fields. project, Egypt's 'Future Project for Agricultural Production' comprises more than a million feddans, which represents around 50 percent of the New Delta project.

    Greening the desert: is Sisi’s grand plan using up all of Egypt’s water?

  • Empty plates laid out to symbolise the 733.4 million people living with hunger worldwide. The central message in red reads: End the global food crisis now. Round the edge is written: Millions of people have empty plates every day

    Africa to overtake Asia with highest number of hungry people by 2030, says UN

  • A young woman in a colourful headscarf with her face hidden

    ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

  • side-by-side photo of rows of produce and a portrait of a woman

    A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

  • Weatherwatch: Buckwheat, miracle crop for a future of extreme heat

  • Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation

June 2024

  • An employee shuts the exit door of the Acropolis hill archaeological site as it temporarily closes due to a heatwave

    The Guardian view on the climate crisis and heatwaves: a killer we need to combat

    Editorial: Britain may be chilly, but from Greece to India, people are dying due to record temperatures. The death toll will grow without urgent action

May 2024

  • The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster team team distributes dry food rations. April 2023

    A common condition
    ‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

    Increasingly frequent natural disasters leave islanders reliant on processed foods for months on end – with deeply concerning knock-on effects to health
  • Syrian children pose for a photo on a narrow street in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp on the southern outskirts of Beirut

    ‘If they see a Syrian, they beat them up’: the refugees living in fear in Lebanon

    The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating
  • A pregnant woman stands in front of two graves: one is painted black and white with a hand-lettered inscription, a wreath and a rickety wooden awning; next to it is a small square brown concrete block, To the right can be seen a small black and white painted concrete grave topped with a cross.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Colombia’s Wayúu people live on land rich in resources. So why are their children dying of hunger?

    State failures in La Guajira have compounded water shortages that bring malnutrition and death

April 2024

  • A flooded field of brussels sprouts

    UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather

  • a woman carries water back to her village

    Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns

March 2024

  • Warao girls on their way home from school in Manaus

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

  • Women organising stock in the downtown market area of Kibuye, Rwanda.

    Fresh blow for Rwanda deportation plan as report shows extreme poverty and hunger

  • Children sit listlessly by bags of flat bread

    Onions sell for 50 times usual price in Gaza as Palestinians scramble for food

  • A man picking fruit from a tree.

    The alternatives
    Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers

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

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