Food security
News, comment and features on food security, food insecurity and food scarcity in the developing world
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Food aid from warehouse to plate: fighting South Sudan’s famine – in picturesLast year, photographer Matt Black documented the logistics chain of international food aid from a warehouse hub in Dubai to Unity State in South Sudan, where famine has just been declared
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Donors pledge $672m at Oslo summit to avert famine in Nigeria and Lake ChadNorway leads funding commitments as summit raises one-third of $1.5bn needed to avert famine by reaching 3 million people within five months
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UK's £100m response to South Sudan famine comes from cash already allocatedInitial optimism quashed after it emerges that announcement of ‘new’ government support for famine-hit country refers to funding already in place
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World leaders convene in Oslo for Nigeria food crisis summitHopes of renewed impetus on efforts to prevent famine in north-east Nigeria tempered by concerns over omission of word ‘donor’ from summit’s official title
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Sikkim's organic revolution at risk as local consumers fail to buy into projectWith 66,000 farmers’ livelihoods at stake, concern is growing over the Indian state’s organic farming experiment, with locals reluctant to pay higher prices
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Aung San Suu Kyi launches campaign to tackle widespread stunting in MyanmarThe UK is among the partners in a scheme to bolster Myanmar’s fight against malnutrition, which slows the growth of nearly a third of children under five
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Kolkata: the city that eats fish reared on sewageFarmers rear sewage-fed fish to meet the West Bengal city’s growing food demand in the face of competition for wastewater and real estate
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Water-energy-food: can leaders at Davos solve this global conundrum?Huge demands for water present complicated challenges, but leaders will not resolve these kinds of interconnected risks without a systems approach
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Children collapse from hunger after poor harvests in Zimbabwe – in picturesThe aftermath of southern Africa’s drought is having a devastating impact in Zimbabwe. Nearly half the rural population will be in need of food aid over the next three months
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