The number of people seeking help because they cannot afford both food and energy has risen more than threefold in a year, according to new data that highlights the increasingly tough choices British households face between heating and eating.

The UN's World Food Programme warned on Sunday that refugees in East and West Africa faced smaller food rations due to a surge in demand and insufficient funding.

Iranica Desk

President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi instructed the Agriculture Ministry to devise scientific plans to make the country self-sufficient in the production of basic commodities and end reliance on imports.

International Desk

The head of the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called on the world's largest industrialized economies to take steps to anticipate future food shortages.

The leaders of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and the World Bank called for quick work on a new action plan on food security to be prepared by international financial institutions.

World food prices jumped nearly 13% in March to a new record high as the Ukraine conflict caused turmoil in markets for staple grains and edible oils, the U.N. food agency said on Friday.

By Joe Whitworth Emerging food safety challenges must be thought about when looking at the changing food system, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

World food prices hit a record high in February, led by a surge in vegetable oils and dairy products, to post a 20.7% increase year-on-year, the U.N. food agency said.

Nearly 40 percent of people in Ethiopia's Tigray are suffering "an extreme lack of food" in the face of an extended de-facto blockade of the war-hit region, a UN agency said Friday.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in his message on World Food Day, 16 October 2021, warned about the growing number of people lacking access to a healthy diet, while calling for food systems that deliver better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for every person.

Qu Dongyu, the director general of the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Wednesday urged nations to increase efforts to halve food waste by the end of this decade.

In the valleys of central California, the search for water has turned into an all-out obsession as the region suffers through a drought that could threaten the US food supply.

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