Blog Post
The leaders of development agencies and big donors, such as the EU and the United States, gathered today to comment on the Global Report on Food Crises 2023, which is dramatically alarming. In the words of the World Bank Director during the launch: “food crises, once exceptional, are becoming the…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
One year after the outbreak of the Ukraine war and its impacts on global food, energy, and fertilizer prices, the situation of hunger across the world is getting worse. Despite commodity prices declining for a 12th consecutive month, higher fertilizers prices combined with the impact of climate change on food…
Blog Post / Right to Food and Agriculture
As our world faces an unprecedented crisis, the number of food-insecure people is expected to double from what it was in 2019, placing 49 countries at risk of famine. The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which was created to help low-income countries build sustainable and resilient agriculture and…
Blog Post / Right to Food and Agriculture
The day after the closure of the 50th Committee on World Food Security (CFS), I’m not sure if I’m more angry or depressed. While millions of people are starving due to climate disasters, inflation, and conflicts, governments gathered at the CFS 50 expecting to coordinate a response to the global…
Blog Post / Politics & Economics
The 26th of September was a sad day for me. I woke up to the news that the right-wing coalition led by the “Brothers of Italy” party, directly descended from the Mussolini fascist party, won the election. This win means that Italy now has the most conservative right-wing government we…
Blog Post / Right to Food and Agriculture
In a statement on Monday, Martin Griffiths, head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that “famine was at the door” and was likely to occur in south-central Somalia between October and December this year. But the alarm is not just for Somalia. Many countries are suffering from…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
The world commended the recent deal with Russia and Ukraine brokered by Turkey and the UN to allow shipping 20 million tons of grain blocked in Ukraine through the Black Sea. The resumption of grain trade from Ukraine has decreased international prices while increasing grain availability for countries most in…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
The world is experiencing the third global food crisis in 15 years. The impact of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine is exacerbating the effects of climate change, conflicts, and the Covid-19 pandemic on the poorest communities. The recent skyrocketing of food and fuel prices is a further signal that the current food…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
Food prices have hit the highest point in a decade, and this may lead the world on the brink of a food crisis we are not prepared for or equipped to address. There are multiple drivers of the current food price spike, not least the Russian invasion of Ukraine putting…
Insight / Right to Food and Agriculture
By Ibrahima Coulibaly, President of the Network of Farmers’ Organizations and Smallholder Farmers in West Africa (ROPPA); Alberta Guerra, Senior Policy Analyst at ActionAid USA; and Esther Penunia, Secretary-General of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) Across the world, between 720 and 811 million people go to…