Food Security

Native Villagers in Honduras Bet on Food Security – and Win

By Thelma Mejía
The town’s dynamic mayor, Sandro Martínez, assumed the commitment of turning the Honduran municipality of Victoria into a model of food and nutritional security and environmental protection by means of municipal public policies based on broad social and community participation and international development aid.

Indigenous Community Beats Drought and Malnutrition in Honduras

By Thelma Mejía
In the heart of the Pijol mountains in the northern Honduran province of Yoro, the Tolupan indigenous community of Pueblo Nuevo has a lot to celebrate: famine is no longer a problem for them, and their youngest children were rescued from the grip of child malnutrition.

Will Myanmar’s ‘Triple Transition’ Help Eradicate Crushing Poverty?

By Amantha Perera
Myanmar is never out of the news for long. This has been the case since a popular uprising challenged military rule in 1988. For over two decades, the country was featured in mainstream media primarily as one unable to cope with its own internal contradictions, a nation crippled by military rule.

Responding to Climate Change from the Grassroots Up

By Desmond Brown
As concern mounts over food security, two community groups are on a drive to mobilise average people across Antigua and Barbuda to mitigate and adapt in the wake of global climate change, which is affecting local weather patterns and by extension, agricultural production.

Better Water Management Needed to Eradicate Poverty

By Torgny Holmgren
It demands repetition: water is a precondition for all life. It keeps us alive – literally – while being a prerequisite for or integral part of most of our daily activities. Think hospitals without water, think farms, energy producers, industries, schools and homes without our most needed resource. All sectors, without exception, are dependent on water.

Family Farmers – Forward to the Future

By Gloria Schiavi
"Who is more concerned than the rural family with regards to preservation of natural resources for future generations?"

Measuring How Climate Change Affects Africa’s Food Security

By Xavi Fernández de Castro
For the past 40 years Josephine Kakiyi, 55, has been cultivating maize, beans and vegetables on her small plot of land in the remote area of Kwa Vonza, in Kitui County, eastern Kenya.

Reducing Hunger: More Than Just Access to Food

By Emilio Godoy
“We want healthy food, we want to produce according to our traditions,” farmers and activists demanded during an international forum of experts on agriculture and the environment in this southern Italian city.

Family Farmers Don’t Need Climate-Smart Agriculture

By Emilio Godoy
Small farmers can look to options like agroecological intensification and innovation, without necessarily turning to climate-smart agriculture, which is promoted by the United Nations but has awakened doubts among global experts meeting in this Italian city.

A Billion Tons of Food Wasted Yearly While Millions Still Go Hungry

By A. D. McKenzie
In his parody of the Michael Jackson hit “Beat It”, the American satirist and singer Weird Al Yankovic has a parent urging his son to eat the food on his plate, warning that “other kids are starving in Japan”.

Hotter Caribbean Poses Challenges for Livestock Farmers

By Jewel Fraser
Livestock farmers in the Caribbean are finding it increasingly difficult and expensive to rear healthy animals because of climate change, a situation that poses a significant threat to a region that is already too dependent on imports to feed its population.

Thirsty Land, Hungry People

By Amantha Perera
Gazing out over the parched earth of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, one might think these farmlands have not seen water in years. In fact, this is not too far from the truth.

OPINION: Less Hunger in the World and the Challenge for the Media

By Mario Lubetkin
It is common belief that good news is less interesting for the general public than bad news; ­this is why media coverage tends to focus on catastrophic events and disasters, both natural and man-made.

Latin America on a Dangerous Precipice

By Diana Cariboni
“We could be the last Latin American and Caribbean generation living together with hunger.”

From Subsistence to Profit, Swazi Farmers Get a Helping Hand

By Mantoe Phakathi
Men in blue overalls are offloading vegetables from trucks while their female counterparts dress and pack the fresh produce before storing it in a cold room.

The Time Has Come for Agroecology

By Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu
"It is time for a new agricultural model that ensures that enough quality food is produced where it is most needed, that preserves nature and that delivers ecosystem services of local and global relevance" – in a word, it is time for agroecology.

OPINION: Step Up Efforts Against Hunger

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram
At the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS), heads of government and the international community committed themselves to reducing the number of hungry people in the world by half. Five years later, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) lowered this level of ambition by only seeking to halve the proportion of the hungry.

World’s Most Unequal Region Sets Example in Fight Against Hunger

By Marianela Jarroud
Latin America and the Caribbean, the world’s most unequal region, has made the greatest progress towards improving food security and has become the region with the largest number of countries to have reached the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of undernourished people.

The Good – and the Bad – News on World Hunger

By Phil Harris
The number of hungry people in the world has declined by over 100 million in the last decade and over 200 million since 1990-92, but 805 million people around the world still go hungry every day, according to the latest UN estimates.

Africa’s Dividing Farmlands A Threat To Food Security

By Miriam Gathigah
When Kiprui Kibet pictures his future as a maize farmer in the fertile Uasin Gishu county in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, all he sees is the ever-decreasing plot of land that he has to farm on.

Global Summit Urged to Focus on Trillion-Dollar Corruption

By Carey L. Biron
New analysis suggests that developing countries are losing a trillion dollars or more each year to tax evasion and corruption facilitated by lax laws in Western countries, raising pressure on global leaders to agree to broad new reforms at an international summit later this year.
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