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UN food agency warns of 'doom loop' for world's hungriest as govts cut aid

The World Food Program warned Tuesday that humanitarian funding cuts by governments are forcing the U.N. agency to drastically cut food rations to the world's hungriest people, with each 1% cut in aid risking to push 400,000 people toward starvation. The agency said the more than 60% funding shortfall this year was the highest in WFP's 60-year history and marks the first time the Rome-based agency has seen contributions decline while needs rise. As a result, the WFP has been forced to cut rations in almost half its operations, including in hard-hit places like Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and Haiti. In a statement, WFP warned that 24 million more people could slip into emergency hunger over the next year as a result. WFP's executive director, Cindy McCain, said with starvation at record levels, governments should be increasing assistance, not decreasing it. If we don't receive the support we need to avert further catastrophe, the world will undoubtedly see more conflict, more unrest

World is losing battle to wipe out hunger by end of decade: Report

Hunger was still rising in western Asia, the Caribbean and throughout Africa last year

Millions left with no aid as West Africa suffers worst hunger crisis: UN

The UN World Food Programme said Wednesday that millions of hungry people in West Africa are without aid as the agency struggles with limited funding to respond to the region's worst hunger crisis in a decade. Nearly half of the 11.6 million people targeted for food aid during the June to August lean season are not receiving any assistance, the agency said in a statement. It warned that hundreds of thousands of people are at risk of joining armed groups, getting married early or engaging in survival sex in their desperation to survive. We're in a tragic situation. During this year's lean season, millions of families will lack sufficient food reserves to sustain them until the next harvests in September," said Margot Vandervelden, WFP interim regional director for Western Africa. "We must take immediate action to prevent a massive slide into catastrophic hunger, she said. Long before last year's flooding and Russia's war in Ukraine, West Africa already was facing its worst food cris

Gender equality 'significantly important' for a world without hunger: UN

In a tweet on Saturday, the UN Secretary-General stated that gender equality is a fundamental requirement that must be addressed in order to remove hunger from the globe

Hunger stalks 48 million people in West Africa amid supply curbs

Food inflation has surged in Africa since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022

A year after, the global economy changed by Russia Ukraine war: Report

Food prices have soared, increasing hunger in the developing world, and forcing governments, businesses and people to adapt to lasting shifts, The Guardian reported

Sinful waste that needs to be stopped

The menace of hunger or undernourishment can be mitigated to a considerable extent just by curtailing the wastage of raw food and making a better use of the left-over cooked food

20 mn people to face acute hunger by March 2023 in Afghanistan: Report

The report predicted that four million children and women will experience acute malnutrition, with malnutrition rates continuing to be exceedingly high

Centre taking vital steps on food security in people's interest: Union MoS

Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Shobha Karandlaje on Thursday shed light on the steps undertaken by the Centre government towards food security

Global Hunger Index: Writing on the wall, or "misleading measurements"?

The Indian government has maintained the stance that the Global Hunger Index is an "erroneous measurement of hunger" and part of a "consistent effort" to "taint India's image"

World Food Day: 19 million Afghans face food insecurity, says WFP

The World Food Program estimated that nearly 19 million Afghans are facing food insecurity on the occasion of World Food Day.On World Food Day, which was observed on Sunday, residents of Kabul said that the lack of jobs and economic challenges is threatening them with severe food insecurity, reported Tolo News.The World Food Programme in Afghanistan said that a survey conducted in February and March indicated that nearly 19 million people are facing food insecurity."The results of the (survey) show that nearly 19 million or 18.9 million people are facing food insecurity and they need food assistance and humanitarian assistance," said Wahidullah Amani, a spokesman for WFP Afghanistan, reported Tolo News."We plan to attract international humanitarian aid, support the small and average industries, and to launch major economic projects to support the infrastructure in Afghanistan," said Abdul Latif Nazari, Deputy Minister of Economy."I have seven children. My husband is jobless. When I ...

India's ranking in Global Hunger Index driven by incorrect record: Expert

India ranked 107 out of 121 countries in the Global Hunger Index 2022, slipping 6 ranks and an expert believes that the ranking had been driven almost entirely by an incorrectly recorded rise

Biden on ending hunger in US by the end of decade: 'I know we can do this'

President Joe Biden said Wednesday his administration's goal of ending hunger in the US by the end of the decade was ambitious but doable, if only the nation would work together toward achieving it. I know we can do this," Biden told an auditorium full of public health officials, private companies and Americans who have experienced hunger. They were gathered for the first White House conference on hunger, nutrition and health since 1969. It was the president at his most optimistic, sketching out a future where no child in the US would go hungry, and diet-related diseases would diminish because of better, healthier food alternatives and access to vast outdoor spaces. That's why we're here today, to harness our greatest resource: Our fellow Americans," Biden said. Everyone, everyone has an important role to play. The 1969 conference, hosted President Richard Nixon, was a pivotal moment that influenced the U.S. food policy agenda for 50 years. It led to a major expansion of the ...

Social Stock Exchange: What kind of organisations can list on it?

Sebi says non-profit organisations that work on eradicating hunger, poverty, and inequality, among other activities, can list on exchange

Who will feed UP's mid-day meal cooks? They have not been paid since March

Over 90% of them are women who are too poor to afford even a single meal

US dooms Europe to hunger, cold, isolation, says Russian parliament leader

Washington has doomed Europe to hunger, cold and isolation, said Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of Russia's lower parliament house, the State Duma

Amid famine threats, WFP seeks $418 mn to ramp up aid in Horn of Africa

The World Food Programme has said that nearly $418 million are urgently needed over the next six months to scale up assistance in the Horn of Africa as levels of hunger soar

Activists criticise G7's $4.5-bn pledge to fight global hunger

At the end of a three-day G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps, the leaders committed the $4.5 billion to protect the most vulnerable from hunger and malnutrition

WTO chief warns of 'bumpy' road as ministers work to reach deals

The WTO chief insisted that trade has lifted 1 billion people out of poverty, but poorer countries - and poor people in richer ones - are often left behind

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