Food security

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and UN World Food Programme (WPF) are expanding cooperation in 27 countries particularly hard hit by the global hunger crisis. This was agreed by…

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Food security

This year’s Global Hunger Index, which Welthungerhilfe presents jointly with Concern Worldwide on the occasion of World Food Day once a year, again reveals a dramatic global food situation.

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Food security

This report calls for urgent action to save lives and livelihoods and prevent famine in countries where acute food insecurity is expected to worsen over the coming months.

 

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Food security

The international community must work together to increase efficiency in production and trade, improve transparency, accelerate innovation and joint planning, and invest in food systems transformation in order to counter…

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Food security

International civil society – which also includes members of Germany’s Forum Environment&Development – has ample reasons to reject participation in the Global Alliance for Food Security. Existing institutions ought to be…

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Food security

The FAO Food Price Index dropped again in August, but still remains nearly eight per cent above its value a year before. Especially wheat prices declined, reflecting improved production prospects in North America and the…

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Food security

Global food prices more than doubled since February 2020, but they have rocketed even further since the start of the war in Ukraine. This has made basic foodstuffs unaffordable for the 1.8 billion people in the world who…

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Food security

It is becoming more and more difficult for the international community to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, “No Hunger”. Since 2017, the number of people going hungry has been on the increase, and Russia’s war…

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Food security

We are living in times of multiple crises. Given climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, Welthungerhilfe is warning of rising numbers of hunger victims.

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Food security

The report provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further away from its goal of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.

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