Tag: Hunger
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,...