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6 Jun 2022 5 minute read

This article is more than one year old.

The war in Ukraine has hit Africa’s food security

Russia’s invasion has triggered cost rises and staple shortages. Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo examines the crisis...

Searching for sustenance: In Para State, a man moves his furniture in a cart after struggling to make rent following food price inflation beginning in 2013. Credit Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos

16 Jun 2021 3 minute read

This article is more than two years old.

The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis

A recent study suggests that as many as six in ten Brazilians are struggling to put food on the table, reports ...

Newly displaced people waiting by the side of the road after fleeing attacks in Barsalogho, in northcentral Burkina Faso. TOM PEYRE-COSTA/NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL

8 Oct 2020 2 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

Burkina Faso: coming undone

Sam Mednick on Burkina Faso’s unfolding humanitarian crisis.

Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.

16 Jun 2020 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Out of sight, out of mind

This Covid-19 crisis is not the ultimate leveller. Just like the financial crash of 2008, it is producing winners and losers...

15 Jun 2020 5 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Fighting hunger with solidarity

As employment dwindles and mass evictions loom, Keira Dignan and Frans Jansson speak to...

Protesters against Argentina’s hunger crisis gather for a brew, 5 September 2019. They had camped out overnight in front of the Ministry of Social Development in Buenos Aires. CAROL SMILJAN/NURPHOTO/PA

21 Apr 2020 6 minute read

This article is more than three years old.

Argentina’s big squeeze

Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires...

4 May 2017 3 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Why do 3 million children go hungry over school holidays in the world's fifth richest country?

More and more households use food banks and struggle to make ends meet without free school meals, writes Paul Donovan...

29 Apr 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than seven years old.

Ethiopia drought: on the edge of a crisis

Up to 10 million people are currently facing famine, reports Nicola Kelly.

4 Mar 2015 4 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Who controls our food?

Agroecology can help challenge the patriarchal forms of organization in farming, argues Nick Dearden.

9 Jun 2014 2 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Only school dinners for Spain’s poorest children

The country now has the dubious distinction of having the second-highest child poverty rate in Europe, says Marian...

7 May 2014 3 minute read

This article is more than nine years old.

Limiting beyond belief: the cost of living below the line

Josh Barrie is relieved to get back to a wholesome diet after his charity challenge.

7 Feb 2014 2 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

Why is northern Kenya’s hunger crisis being ignored?

Henry Owino investigates the impact of drought in long-neglected Turkana County.

15 Jan 2014 2 minute read

This article is almost ten years old.

EU takes historic step to stop banks betting on hunger

But there is still work to be done, says Miriam Ross.

G8 mobilizations need solidarity, not stage management

17 Jun 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

G8 mobilizations need solidarity, not stage management

Jamie Gorman was inspired by Belfast’s Big March for a Fairer World, but unimpressed by the image control of...

G8 hunger summit provokes protest and praise

10 Jun 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

G8 hunger summit provokes protest and praise

Amy Hall joins the London climax of the IF campaign and finds herself musing the age old question – can you...

Craftivist: ‘I’m a piece’ of fighting for justice

5 Mar 2013 3 minute read

This article is more than ten years old.

Craftivist: ‘I’m a piece’ of fighting for justice

Rin Simpson says the success of the #imapiece hunger campaign rekindled her drive for activism.

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