Tag: hunger

How extreme heat intensifies health problems and hunger

- Muhammad Aamir -

In May, temperatures soared above 52° Celsius (125.6° Fahrenheit) in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh. To cope, Samina Kanwal, a community health worker with Action Against Hunger, began work at 7:00 am — the earliest time possible given neighborhood security protocols — to travel door-to-door helping vulnerable with the health

Conflict’s long shadow has a name – Hunger

- Charles E. Owubah -

Scarce food and drinking water. Limited and inconsistent healthcare. Rapidly deteriorating mental health. With conflict on the rise globally, this is the grim reality for millions around the world. April 7th will mark the sixth-month anniversary of the attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, which has killed over

A world of one billion empty plates

- Baher Kamal, IPS -

Have you eaten today – or are sure you will? The answer depends on where you were born and where you live now. If you are Spanish or live here, you likely did or will, provided that you are not one of this European country’s 900.000 inhabitants who face some

The Hunger Factory: The modern horsemen of the apocalypse Part- II

- Baher Kamal, IPS -

While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight. Like the legend of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the modern ones are a mix of combined causes: inequality; speculation; indebtedness, and the

Without peace, hunger will continue to increase

- Mario Lubetkin, IPS -

If the war in Ukraine, that was initiated three months ago, does not end, and without a reduction in the growing number of conflicts in other parts of the world, hunger will only continue to increase. As rarely seen in recent history, issues related to agrifood systems and world food security