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- Inter Press Service
Food Insecurity and Child Malnutrition Worsen in Afghanistan Despite Strong Agricultural Season
Despite a strong agricultural harvest, Afghanistan faces escalating food insecurity and child malnutrition. Soaring living expenses, limited employment opportunities, and reduced aid are severely restricting household food access ahead of winter. This convergence of economic pressures threatens vulnerable populations, underscoring critical humanitarian challenges in the region.
- UN News
Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance
Severe budget shortfalls have compelled the World Food Programme to reduce rations for approximately 500,000 vulnerable residents in the Gaza Strip. The cutbacks, implemented as colder weather arrives, significantly diminish vital sustenance for families already facing severe hunger in the besieged enclave.
- Global Voices
El Niño speeds climate crisis and tests Latin America’s food security
- UN News
Escalating fighting in Yemen deepens food security crisis
Renewed military clashes in Yemen have driven a significant rise in severe hunger across the country. The World Food Programme cautions that this deteriorating nutrition emergency threatens stability throughout the broader region.
- Inter Press Service
Africa Has the Technology to Achieve Food Security—Now It Needs Coordinated Deployment
Despite a booming technology sector and rising international investment across Africa, the continent continues to face severe poverty and hunger. Experts emphasize that achieving regional food security depends on deploying existing innovations in a more coordinated manner rather than solely relying on financial growth.
- UN News
Haiti: Child malnutrition crisis worsens amid escalating violence
In Haiti, escalating conflict is driving a severe nutrition emergency among young children. A recent UN-backed assessment indicates that a quarter of a million children under five will likely experience acute wasting over the coming year. This sharp deterioration threatens regional stability and demands urgent humanitarian intervention.
- Inter Press Service
Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them
At the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, agricultural experts emphasized that the continent already possesses the necessary farming solutions to achieve food security. However, realizing this potential requires establishing robust financial frameworks, strategic partnerships, and delivery mechanisms to scale up proven innovations successfully.
- Mongabay
Growing Indigenous food trees in East Africa fights malnutrition and biodiversity loss
In Malawi, the cultivation of indigenous food trees, such as the masuku plum, is being promoted to combat malnutrition and enhance biodiversity. Agroecologists emphasize the importance of these native fruits in local diets, highlighting their role in improving nutrition and supporting ecological health in East Africa.
- UN News
One million children in Afghanistan face deadly malnutrition
In Afghanistan, approximately 3.7 million children suffer from wasting. Among them, roughly one million face severe, life-threatening malnutrition. This crisis puts vulnerable youth at critical risk, demanding urgent humanitarian intervention across the region.
- Devpolicy Blog
Global Syndemic in the Pacific: climate change meets undernutrition and obesity
Writing at the Pacific Heads of Health meeting in the Cook Islands, Tracy Yuen highlights how climate shifts, malnutrition, and rising obesity intersect across the region. This convergence requires coordinated interventions spanning food networks, healthcare delivery, and social safety nets to effectively address compounded nutritional vulnerabilities in Pacific island nations.
- World Health Organization
Urgent action needed as acute malnutrition threatens the lives of millions of vulnerable children
United Nations agencies have urged immediate measures to safeguard children across fifteen nations severely affected by a critical food crisis. The appeal seeks to prevent widespread child mortality driven by acute nutritional shortages in the most heavily impacted regions globally.
- World Health Organization
Acute malnutrition threatens half of children under five in Yemen in 2021: UN
Four UN agencies report that nearly 2.3 million young children in Yemen will face acute malnutrition in 2021. Driven by ongoing conflict and funding shortages, this crisis threatens hundreds of thousands of lives and causes irreversible developmental damage, underscoring the urgent need for humanitarian intervention.
- World Health Organization
As more go hungry and malnutrition persists, achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns
A joint United Nations assessment reveals that global chronic undernourishment rose to nearly 690 million people in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to severely worsen these figures, placing the 2030 Zero Hunger target increasingly out of reach and underscoring widespread difficulties in accessing affordable, nutritious diets.
- World Health Organization
World Food Safety Day 2020: UN experts in Facebook live event on 5 June 2020
Ahead of the second annual World Food Safety Day on June 7, 2020, the FAO and WHO will host a virtual event on June 5. The agencies aim to highlight shared global responsibilities in maintaining secure food supply chains, an issue amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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