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FAO warns of looming widespread food crisis as hunger threatens stability

Web DeskThe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have issued a stark warning of multiple, looming food...

Half of Afghanistan’s population face acute hunger: FAO

Web DeskMore than half the population of Afghanistan – a record 22.8 million people - will face acute food insecurity from November,...

Pandemic year marked by spike in world hunger: UN report

Web DeskThere was a dramatic worsening of world hunger in 2020, the United Nations said on Monday, terming much of it as...

27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises: Report

Monitoring Desk UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) have identified 27 countries that are on the frontline of impending COVID-19-driven...

COVID-19: FAO launches new Response and Recovery Programme

Monitoring Desk Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) has launched its new comprehensive COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme, aimed at preventing a global food...

$350 million needed to avert hunger as countries reel from COVID-19...

World Desk The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $350 million to scale up hunger-fighting and livelihoods-boosting activities in food crisis contexts where...

GMO crops can help fight malnutrition, hunger

  Agriculture Desk Over 800 million people are currently suffering from hunger on the globe, and some 2 billion suffer from some type of important nutritional...

World Food Day: Incidence of hunger in Pakistan down by 2...

By Muhammad Luqman The prevalence of malnutrition in Pakistan has come down to 19.9 percent from previous year’s 22 percent , according to recently...

Pakistan’s 20% population is ‘undernourished’, : Hunger Index

By Muhammad Luqman Pakistan’s 20% population or 42 million people are ‘undernourished’, according to the Global Hunger Index Report made public on Thursday. There is improvement...

World hunger again on the rise: UN

By Muhammad Luqman After a steady decline in the incidence of hunger for over a decade, starvation is on the rise again,...

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