By Tom EspinerBusiness reporter, BBC NewsPublished11 hours agoShare Related Topics Russia-Ukraine war A food crisis kicked off by the Ukraine war could last for years without intervention, the head of […]
May 26,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Fatoumata Nafo BAMAKO, MALI — When I returned home to Mali in 2019 after two decades working across Africa and the rest of the world, I found it difficult to recognise the place. The optimism spurred by the country’s development in the 1990s had […]
May 22,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Seta Tutundjian DUBAI — Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Food Price Index, which covers a basket of […]
/ / April 21, 2022 at 8:09 pm | Published in: Article, Coronavirus, Europe & Russia, Opinion, Russia, Ukraine Farmers inspect the wheat plants during their production process in Nile Delta province of al-Minufiyah, Egypt on 25 […]
NGAIRE WOODS April 22, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/9zaa6 Through no fault of their own, developing countries face a perfect storm of famine, political upheaval and debt crises. Russia’s invasion of […]
Previous 0 seconds of 1 minute, 36 secondsVolume 40% The Ukrainian conflict’s disruption of the distribution of grain is hitting the price of staples such as bread. (AFP)Next Short Url […]
Nearly 22.8 million Afghans face acute food insecurity https://cdn.vuukle.com/widgets/powerbar.html?version=2.10.13 People sit with their belongings in the Pakistan side of the border after the authorities of Pakistan and Afghanistan close the […]
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS KAMAR KALAGH, AFGHANISTAN DEC 09, 2021 Ajji Wali Jan brought a half-dozen plastic containers to the well in Kamar Kalagh on a recent Friday – one of the […]
BY MELIH ALTINOK COLUMNS NOV 04, 2021 12:05 AM GMT+3A photo illustration by Daily Sabah’s Büşra Öztürk shows Tesla CEO Elon Musk with the U.N. logo seen at the right background. The […]
FOLLOW THE FOOD Why we still haven’t solved global food insecurity BY WILLIAM PARK The number of people living in food insecurity grows every year And the pandemic has made […]
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG September 07, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/m3gzm It is now clear that the 20-year effort by the US and its European allies to turn Afghanistan into a […]
Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from Kunduz and Takhar province due to battles between Taliban and Afghan security forces, collect food in Kabul. (AFP/File Photo) Short Url https://arab.news/65wqq Combined […]
Source: The Guardian New data shows families go without as parents lose income, meal voucher scheme is beset with problems and food banks can’t cope By Nosheen Iqbal; @nosheeniqbal The […]
By AFP – Apr 08,2020 – JORDAN TIMES The lockdown imposed by Lebanese authorities to stem the spread of COVID-19 has compounded poverty and economic hardship in the country, rights […]
In 2019 a staggering 7.1 million, or around two thirds of South Sudan’s population, will require humanitarian assistance Bel Trew Gumuruk, South Sudan The Independent Voices A woman from Pibor, […]
Aug 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré The scale of human suffering currently engulfing drought-stricken Somalia is almost indescribable. It is difficult to find words to convey the devastation and misery gripping the country, now in the midst of a prolonged period of record-low rainfall. I watched emaciated herds of […]