Tag: Food Insecurity
How Russia’s War on Ukraine Is Worsening Global Starvation
Moscow blocks most shipments from Ukraine, one of the world’s largest wheat producers, and its attacks on the…
Biden Paints Russia as a Threat to the World in U.N. Speech
President Biden used his first speech at the United Nations since the invasion of Ukraine to accuse one…
More Americans Are Going Hungry, and It Costs More to Feed Them
The first time Kelly Wilcox drove her 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan to the food pantry near her home…
Economy Is at Risk of Recession by a Force Hiding in Plain Sight
This past week brought home the magnitude of the overlapping crises assailing the global economy, intensifying fears of…
Mission Impossible? Officials Wrangle to Free Ukraine’s Grains
BRUSSELS — Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are scheduled to meet Wednesday in Istanbul, in the increasingly desperate effort…
Is the World Really Falling Apart, or Does It Just Feel That Way?
Has the world entered a time of unusual turbulence, or does it just feel that way?Scanning the headlines,…
In South Asia, Climate Change Worries Take On Fresh Urgency
FATEHGARH-SAHIB, India — When the unseasonably heavy rains flooded the fields, and then the equally unseasonable heat shriveled…
‘We Buried Him and Kept Walking’: Children Die as Somalis Flee Hunger
DOOLOW, Somalia — When her crops failed and her parched goats died, Hirsiyo Mohamed left her home in…
At Davos, a Referendum on the World Economic Forum
The small ski town of Davos, high in the Swiss alps, has heightened security measure in place during…
War in Ukraine Compounds Hunger in East Africa
NAIROBI, Kenya — First came the drought, drying up rivers, and claiming the lives of two of Ruqiya…
Ukraine War Threatens to Cause a Global Food Crisis
Russian and Ukrainian wheat is not easily replaced. Inventories are already tight in the United States and Canada,…