16 million in Yemen ‘marching towards starvation’ as food rations run low – UN

Aid worker describes ‘horrific’ scenes in one hospital where starving and malnourished children ‘look like skeletons’At least 5 million people in Yemen are on the brink of famine and a further 16 million are “marching toward starvation”, as the country…

Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening? | Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink

We’re among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it’s been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheardThursday’s UN food summit proposes to help solve the world’s nutrition crisis, with 800 million people…

‘Nothing to eat’: Somalia hit by triple threat of climate crisis, Covid and conflict

Overlapping crises have pushed the fragile east African country to the ‘cusp of humanitarian catastrophe’, with one in four facing food insecuritySuch was the horror that erupted in her village earlier this year that Fadumo Ali Mohamed decided she had …