Topic: food
Around 258 million in 58 countries need emergency food aid: UN report
The number of people who need urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, due to conflict, climatic change, and COVID-19 impacts, the UN and partners said in a report published on Wednesday.
Nearly a million people urgently needed food in Turkey and Syria after quake: UN
At least 870,000 people urgently needed food in the two countries after the quake, which has made up to 5.3 million people homeless in Syria alone, the United Nations warned.
Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon
Some two million people in Lebanon, including 1.29 million Lebanese residents and 700,000 Syrian refugees, are suffering some form of food insecurity as a result of the multiple crises afflicting the country, with the situation expected to get worse in the months ahead, UN agencies said on Thursday.
World food prices drop for fifth consecutive month: Report
World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
World’s most vulnerable now paying even more, for less food: Report
Ever-higher fixed costs for farmers of so-called “agricultural inputs” such as fertilizer and fuel are likely to be responsible for this year’s bigger-than-ever global food import bill.
Food insecurity threatens societies and ‘no country is immune’
“When war is waged, people go hungry,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
