Refining wheat, maize and rice removes their nutritional value, which contributes to preventable diseases such as strokes, diabetes and obesity
The G7 has wrongly blamed the looming crisis on blocked Ukraine exports, which are far smaller than Russia’s global share of fertiliser and food exports
With food and petrol prices rocketing, impoverished people sacrifice nutritious food for starches that keep them full, leaving children malnourished and adults prone to disease
As India and South Africa push for relief at the World Trade Organisation through intellectual property rights waivers, India’s history of getting concessions may be the proverbial tripping block
President Jacob Zuma says that the Land Holdings Bill does not affect foreign nationals who are planning to buy homes for residences in South Africa.
Available data suggests the claim that 12 Africans die of hunger every minute – recently made by a Nepad adviser – is exaggerated.
As financial troubles plague the World Food Programme, the future of the mouths it feeds in the Democratic Republic of Congo is at threat.
Aid is needed to feed more than two million people as the government runs out of maize reserves.
Zimbabwe is facing a food crisis with one in four people in rural areas at risk of hunger in 2014, the highest number in half a decade, says the UN.
The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger has been flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan.
A decision by Zambia’s president to slash a key food subsidy threatens to hit the poor, stoke inflation and spark a revolt against his government.
About 1.6-million Zimbabweans, most of them in rural areas, urgently need food aid because of low rainfall and a drop in agricultural production.
Lesotho’s declaration of a food emergency in August went fairly unnoticed in South Africa, but make no mistake: this is an emergency.
It is time for farmers around the world to sound the alarm on climate change, writes Jay Naidoo.
Urgent aid is needed and relief agencies want more durable solutions.
Extreme weather and market forces have affected the price of food worldwide, from tomatoes in Israel to cabbage in South Korea.
Tens of thousands of animals across Niger have died in the last few months; literally starving to death.
In a disaster predicted months ago by aid agencies, Africa’s Sahel region is lurching towards a food crisis which the world has only weeks to avert.
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/ 18 February 2010
One in six people across the world are hungry, the International Fund for Agricultural Development has revealed.
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/ 29 January 2009
Workshops highlight pros and cons of genetically modified agriculture, writes Jacklynne Hobbs.
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/ 14 October 2008
As governments pour trillions into shoring up banks, World Food Day will be marked on Thursday by calls to combat hunger and a price spiral.
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/ 6 September 2008
The army was accused of leading militia loyal to Robert Mugabe in a brutal election campaign that the MDC says left more than 100 people dead.
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/ 3 September 2008
A new European treaty will snatch food from the mouths of the world’s poorest.
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/ 2 September 2008
Azad Essa, the IOLS-Research and the M&G compiled a series of stories about how people are being affected by the economic crunch.
The global food crisis has forced Ethiopian families to make grievous choices.
Cosatu’s national strike in protest against food, fuel and electricity prices this week hit economic activity hard.
Five million people will need help within months, warns the UN. Families flee as many are reduced to one meal a day, writes Chris McGreal.
Trade unions challenge the ANC leadership to adopt policy changes promised at Polokwane
More must be done to support small-scale farmers if Africa is to overcome a crippling food crisis, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan says.
Thousands of workers took to the streets on Wednesday in support of a Cosatu protest against rocketing food and power prices.
War will be declared on hunger and poverty, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) told a food seminar in Midrand on Thursday.
There is no other way to deal with rising food prices than to increase food production, Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Lulu Xingwana says.