Global hunger hit a new high last year with the outlook for 2025 “bleak,” according to a United Nations-backed report. Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth consecutive year in ...

Overall global hunger has slightly decreased from previous years, but still remains above pre-pandemic levels in part due to high food inflation, according to the United Nations' latest report on food ...

Worsening hunger has been identified in 13 countries and territories, according to the latest Hunger Hotspots report that urges humanitarian action in these areas. The report, a joint effort of the UN ...

BEIRUT — Famine is “playing out” across Gaza, the world’s leading hunger monitor said Tuesday, in its strongest warning yet on the rapidly growing starvation crisis, as images of emaciated children ...

As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, global food security is at risk, especially in the global south. Yet the answer may already be at hand: the ...

Pope Leo XIV leaves the Global World Food Day Ceremony in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 16, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.) Listen ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on world leaders to show ...

Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), warned of a worsening global hunger crisis in 2026, saying more than 318 million people face severe levels of food insecurity.

Palestinians struggle to get their food rations at a distribution centre in the northern Gaza Strip — BASHAR TALEB More than 295 million people faced acute hunger last year, a new high driven by ...

We meet the CDO of the World Food Programme who tells us how he focuses on solving problems from first principles, and how that in turn is helping his organization use data to feed the world. In a ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The number of hungry people around the world fell for a third straight year in 2024, retreating from a COVID-era spike, even as conflict and climate shocks deepened malnutrition ...

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