The UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Tuesday that will need to raise $6.8 billion over the next six months to avert famine triggered by the coronavirus pandemic crisis. “We’ve got a lot more money to raise to make certain we avert famine,” David Beasley, executive director of the WFP, said at a conference […]
By Francesca DiGiorgio A bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to increase federal aid for emergency food distribution in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The FEMA Empowering Essential Deliveries (FEED) Act will allow local and state governments to partner with restaurants on initiatives that feed people in need. It also calls on the Federal Emergency […]
By Katie Howell More than 6,000 plant species have been cultivated for food worldwide, but only nine account for the majority of total crop production, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAO finds that crop diversity is continuing to decline across the globe because of unsustainable agricultural practices, industrialization, and increased urbanization. […]
By Isabelle Gerretsen “When I told people I was going to grow tomatoes in the desert, they thought I was crazy,” Sky Kurtz, founder of Pure Harvest Smart Farms, told DW. With just an average 12 days of rain a year, less than 1% arable land, a desert location and an 80% import rate for […]
By Michael Fakhri and Ntina Tzouvala According to a new United Nations report, global rates of hunger and malnutrition are on the rise. The report estimates that in 2019, 690 million people – 8.9% of the world’s population – were undernourished. It predicts that this number will exceed 840 million by 2030. If you also […]
By Danielle Nierenberg Since the first episode of Food Talk Live aired on March 19, our twice-daily live conversation series has featured nearly 150 food system experts, advocates, scientists, chefs and more. This means that, over the past four months, I’ve probably asked more than 1,000 questions to these folks about the future of the […]
By Andrea Germanos Oxfam International warned Thursday that up to 12,000 people could die each day by the end of the year as a result of hunger linked to the coronavirus pandemic—a daily death toll surpassing the daily mortality rate from Covid-19 itself. April saw the highest global daily mortality rate for Covid-19 thus far […]
By Meg Wilcox As U.S. food assistance programs grapple with overwhelming demand during the coronavirus pandemic, some in New England are finding support from unusual partners—renewable energy companies. Scratch the surface of these partnerships, however, and the connections begin to make sense. The renewable energy companies are already engaged with the food system, and they’re […]
The United Nations issued a dire warning on Tuesday that the world stands on the brink of the worst food crisis in the last 50 years, according to The Guardian. The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is facing an “impending global food emergency” that could impact hundreds of millions of people […]
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