The Coronavirus Reveals The 'Invisible Inequalities' In Our Food System
4 years, 8 months ago

The Coronavirus Reveals The 'Invisible Inequalities' In Our Food System

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Americans are worried about food, many for the first time in their lives. Every single part of the food system is affected by, starting from production and where we are going to get people to harvest food if they’re not allowed to be near each other or come into the country. Bill Hayes We’re seeing the shelves empty of certain kinds of products ― that’s going to increase as people are still hoarding food and it’s difficult for the stores to keep up with the demand. But until we start seeing real shortages of things people don’t feel they can do without ― and I don’t know whether that is going to be coffee, chocolate or something more nutritionally useful ― until that happens, I don’t think food is going to get the kind of traction it needs. I’m hoping at the end of this, some of these really bizarre anomalies will change and people will understand that we need to have a food system that protects human health and protects environmental health.

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About 282 million people faced acute hunger last year: UN-led report
8 months, 2 weeks ago

About 282 million people faced acute hunger last year: UN-led report

Al Jazeera  

Gaza, Sudan and other conflicts – along with extreme weather and economic shocks – worsened food insecurity, says new report calling the global outlook ‘bleak’ for this year. Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with about 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to United Nations agencies and development …

"Unnecessary and unacceptable": Why the American hunger crisis could get worse in 2024
1 year, 1 month ago

"Unnecessary and unacceptable": Why the American hunger crisis could get worse in 2024

Salon  

Just a few days before Thanksgiving, new data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey showed that nearly 28 million people reported experiencing food scarcity in October — both the highest number of 2023 and the highest number recorded by the survey since December 2020. Food insecurity experts deemed that prospect a “looming hunger cliff” — and again and again …

Investing more in food system transformations to feed the world
1 year, 5 months ago

Investing more in food system transformations to feed the world

China Daily  

Farmers harvest rice in Rizhao, Shandong province. Back in 2021, the United Nations Food Systems Summit committed to accelerate and deepen the transformative power of food systems for achieving the SDGs. Once again, at the Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment concluded this week, the global community came together to speak about the urgency of transforming food systems globally, for …

UN Talks Seek to Fix 'Broken' Global Food System
1 year, 5 months ago

UN Talks Seek to Fix 'Broken' Global Food System

News 18  

A three-day United Nations summit opened in Rome on Monday aimed at tackling a “broken” global food system where millions are starving, two billion are overweight or obese and the planet is suffering. The food systems summit comes amid growing food insecurity around the world, with UN agencies warning of an increasing number of people suffering from chronic hunger. “Global …

Explained | What has to be done to get to Zero Hunger?
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | What has to be done to get to Zero Hunger?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Global Report on the Food Crises 2023 released recently estimated that between 691 million and 783 million people in the world suffered from hunger in 2022. The GRFC is produced by the Food Security Information Network in support of the Global Network against Food Crises, and involves 16 partners to achieve a joint consensus-based assessment …

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022
1 year, 8 months ago

UN: 258 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2022

Associated Press  

ROME — More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year because of conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday. The report found that that the number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food aid — 258 million — …

258 million people worldwide faced acute food insecurity in 2022, report says
1 year, 8 months ago

258 million people worldwide faced acute food insecurity in 2022, report says

LA Times  

More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year because of conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday. The report found that the number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food aid — 258 million — had increased for …

How can we end the hunger pandemic?
2 years ago

How can we end the hunger pandemic?

Al Jazeera  

As 2022 comes to a close, we are facing a food crisis worse than any other in recent memory. The combined consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate change, from disrupted supply chains and soaring inflation to extreme weather events, gradually left millions of people all over the world unable to put food on their tables. …

It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis
2 years, 5 months ago

It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis

Al Jazeera  

Millions of lives are at stake and the world’s most vulnerable do not have the luxury of time. Even before the war, hunger and malnutrition were on the rise globally, with an unacceptable 823 million people going hungry in 2021 according to the recent edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report by five United …

How the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID and climate change are fuelling a growing global food crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

How the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID and climate change are fuelling a growing global food crisis

ABC  

The farmers sleep fully clothed so they are ready to run for shelter. The report said nearly 193 million people in 53 countries and territories faced "crisis", "emergency" or "catastrophic" levels of food security in 2021 — the highest since the report began gathering data in 2016. "We already had record-high food prices, even in January, that was basically the …

UN: Record 193 million people faced food insecurity in 2021
2 years, 8 months ago

UN: Record 193 million people faced food insecurity in 2021

Al Jazeera  

Nearly 193 million people in 53 countries faced acute food insecurity in 2021, a jump of 40 million compared with 2020. The number of people without enough to eat on a daily basis has reached an all-time high last year and is poised to hit “appalling” new levels as the Ukraine war affects global food production, the United Nations said. …

As a result of COVID-19, more people are experiencing food insecurity — and community services are stepping in to help
2 years, 8 months ago

As a result of COVID-19, more people are experiencing food insecurity — and community services are stepping in to help

ABC  

Annette Formosa never thought she would need to rely on her local community in Sydney's western suburbs to ensure there was enough food on the table. Key points: One in six Australian adults experienced food insecurity in 2021, according to Foodbank Of those, almost 40 per cent had not experienced food insecurity prior to the COVID-19 pandemic Community services in …

UN: world hunger was dramatically worse in pandemic year
3 years, 5 months ago

UN: world hunger was dramatically worse in pandemic year

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the new “tragic data” …

Covid Triggered Biggest Increase In Hunger In Decades: UN
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid Triggered Biggest Increase In Hunger In Decades: UN

News 18  

The coronavirus pandemic caused an estimated 18 percent increase in the number of people facing hunger, a UN report released on Monday found, dealing a massive setback to efforts to ensure everyone has access to food. The “economic downturns as a consequence of Covid-19 containment measures all over the world have contributed to one of the largest increases in world …

Pandemic, global conflict and climate change fueling food insecurity in 2020: report
3 years, 8 months ago

Pandemic, global conflict and climate change fueling food insecurity in 2020: report

Firstpost  

Economic crisis was the prime reason for hunger for 40 million, compared with 24 million in 2019 and the pandemic has exacerbated vulnerabilities. The economic cost of the global pandemic as well as conflict and climate change are fueling food security fears that in 2020 reached their highest level in five years, according to a report published Wednesday. He added …

Millions staring at famine as food insecurity soars: Report
3 years, 8 months ago

Millions staring at famine as food insecurity soars: Report

Al Jazeera  

Food insecurity and its impacts have been exacerbated in part by the coronavirus pandemic, a new report has found. Food insecurity in the world’s poorest countries reached record highs in 2020, with millions staring at famine, a situation exacerbated in part by the COVID pandemic, according to a UN report. From Haiti to Syria, some 155 million people across 55 …

Covid Impact: As Millions Stare at Famine, Women and Girls at Greater Risk as They Eat Last and Least
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid Impact: As Millions Stare at Famine, Women and Girls at Greater Risk as They Eat Last and Least

News 18  

With millions on the brink of famine in four nations, women and girls will be hardest hit due to cultural beliefs and COVID-19’s economic impacts, the charity CARE said on Wednesday. “There is a huge risk that millions of women and girls around the world are already going hungry,” Sarah Fuhrman, a humanitarian policy specialist with CARE, told the Thomson …

Opinion: Covid-19 has scarred the global economy, but it’s not too late to change course
4 years, 4 months ago

Opinion: Covid-19 has scarred the global economy, but it’s not too late to change course

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in its entirety in the International Monetary Fund’s fall 2020 issue of Finance & Development Magazine. And this means it goes disproportionately after the poor, especially in poor countries and in advanced economies like the United States where access to health care is not guaranteed. There are many reasons for these differences: the …

The US food system is killing Americans (Opinion)
4 years, 5 months ago

The US food system is killing Americans (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Akash Goel is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell/NewYork Presbyterian Hospital and term member of the Council on Foreign Relation. Just as baseline chronic disease portends a worse outcome for individuals with Covid-19, our food system is our country’s pre-existing condition that leaves us all at greater risk. While there are significant financial and distribution challenges …

Coronavirus Pandemic and Cyclone Will Leave Many Indians Hungry and Undernourished
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus Pandemic and Cyclone Will Leave Many Indians Hungry and Undernourished

News 18  

India’s malnutrition rates have improved in recent years, but the country is still home to the largest number of stunted children in the world. This year, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has likely reversed the progress made towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition. The 2020 Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals report …

Global hunger, obesity are getting worse due to coronavirus fallout
4 years, 5 months ago

Global hunger, obesity are getting worse due to coronavirus fallout

Live Mint  

Hunger and malnourishment is increasing around the world as the coronavirus crisis pushes more people into poverty and limits access to healthy diets, according to the United Nations. Almost 690 million people were undernourished last year, the most since 2009, and the pandemic could tip as many as 132 million people into chronic hunger by the end of this year, …

One fix for our broken food supply chain? A skin that keeps avocados fresher for longer
4 years, 7 months ago

One fix for our broken food supply chain? A skin that keeps avocados fresher for longer

LA Times  

Bookend images from recent weeks tell the story of America’s flawed food system. “With half of the food system getting shut off practically overnight, what we’ve seen is a lot of waste driven up to the farm level,” said Dana Gunders, executive director of ReFED, a nonprofit that works to reduce food waste. In 2016, at Upfront’s suggestion, he sent …

The economic devastation wrought by the pandemic could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself
4 years, 7 months ago

The economic devastation wrought by the pandemic could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself

LA Times  

It seemed like Silvanah Lima was finally getting ahead. “I haven’t even been able to buy beans.” The economic devastation the pandemic wreaks on the ultra-poor could ultimately kill more people than the virus itself. “I want to stress that we are not only facing a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian catastrophe,” said David Beasley, executive director …

Rotting food. Hungry masses. Chaotic supply chains. Coronavirus upends the U.S. food system
4 years, 8 months ago

Rotting food. Hungry masses. Chaotic supply chains. Coronavirus upends the U.S. food system

LA Times  

Associates fill orders for Ralphs and Food 4 Less grocery stores at the Ralphs Distribution Center in Riverside. “We’ve completely had to change what we’re doing,” said Sherry Bonanno, executive director of the Hollywood Food Coalition. and owner of Liberty Linehaul West in Montebello, said trucking companies are “just trying to keep our wheels rolling to get to a better …

It’s about food, nutrition and livelihood security
4 years, 8 months ago

It’s about food, nutrition and livelihood security

The Hindu  

The current national lockdown to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the problems of food, nutrition and livelihood security confronting a large number of rural people, in particular, migrants to cities. While some measures have been announced, such as provision of additional rice or wheat, some pulses and oil free of cost, as well as ₹1,000 cash for the purchase …

We may not have a cure for the coronavirus, but we do for hunger
4 years, 8 months ago

We may not have a cure for the coronavirus, but we do for hunger

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Billy Shore is the founder and executive chair of Share Our Strength, the parent organization for the No Kid Hungry campaign. Billy Shore Stephen Bobb Among many things, this crisis has exposed the parallel menace that many Americans live with every day: food insecurity and the more than 11 million children facing hunger in our country because of …

America’s food supply system is broken. Here’s how we can fix it (opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

America’s food supply system is broken. Here’s how we can fix it (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this commentary originally published in April. CNN — I first met Scott Blubaugh, the president of the Oklahoma Farmers Union, last year when I was filming an episode on family farms for “United Shades of America.” There’s a lot of talk in this country of farmers as the backbone of America, and we were trying …

America’s food supply system is broken. Here’s how we can fix it (opinion)
4 years, 8 months ago

America’s food supply system is broken. Here’s how we can fix it (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this commentary originally published in April. CNN — I first met Scott Blubaugh, the president of the Oklahoma Farmers Union, last year when I was filming an episode on family farms for “United Shades of America.” There’s a lot of talk in this country of farmers as the backbone of America, and we were trying …

Coronavirus Outbreak: COVID-19 exposes lacunae in India's food security, system needs overhaul from production to last-mile delivery
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus Outbreak: COVID-19 exposes lacunae in India's food security, system needs overhaul from production to last-mile delivery

Firstpost  

One of the most critical challenges that the current coronavirus pandemic has underscored is India’s ability of the food sector to effectively cope with crisis situations. The global coronavirus health crisis, inter alia, has exposed the systemic deficiencies in India’s food security systems and the tilted priorities between its defence and food sector. Food security Coming to the other side …

Coronavirus pandemic ‘may cause famine of biblical proportions’, UN food chief warns
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus pandemic ‘may cause famine of biblical proportions’, UN food chief warns

The Independent  

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Global famines of ‘biblical proportions’ will be caused by coronavirus pandemic, UN warns
4 years, 8 months ago

Global famines of ‘biblical proportions’ will be caused by coronavirus pandemic, UN warns

CNN  

London CNN — The world is facing multiple famines of “biblical proportions” in just a matter of months, the UN has said, warning that the coronavirus pandemic will push an additional 130 million people to the brink of starvation. Famines could take hold in “about three dozen countries” in a worst-case scenario, the executive director of the World Food Programme …

Global hunger could double due to coronavirus pandemic: UN
4 years, 8 months ago

Global hunger could double due to coronavirus pandemic: UN

Al Jazeera  

COVID-19 is likely to leave 130 million people acutely hungry this year, adding to 135 million already in the category. The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, according to the United Nations World Food Programme. New report Tuesday’s fourth annual Global Report on Food …

Virus puts brakes on US economic engine: consumer spending
4 years, 8 months ago

Virus puts brakes on US economic engine: consumer spending

Associated Press  

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. — The federal Health and Human Services department says it’s releasing the first $30 billion in grants provided by the stimulus bill to help keep the U.S. health care system operating during the coronavirus outbreak. Toyoda, speaking as head of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers …

Coronavirus | World could face a food crisis: UN, WTO
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus | World could face a food crisis: UN, WTO

The Hindu  

The heads of three global agencies warned on Wednesday of the risk of a worldwide “food shortage” if authorities fail to manage the ongoing COVID-19 crisis properly. “Uncertainty about food availability can spark a wave of export restrictions, creating a shortage on the global market,” said the joint text signed by Qu Dongyu, head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture …

World risks food crisis in wake of coronavirus, officials warn
4 years, 9 months ago

World risks food crisis in wake of coronavirus, officials warn

Al Jazeera  

Governments must ensure free trade especially to avoid further slowdowns in food-supply chains, WTO, WHO, UN say. As governments around the world are trying to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by putting their populations in lockdown, international trade and food supply chains suffered a severe slowdown. “Uncertainty about food availability can spark a wave of export restrictions, creating …

Coronavirus: Food rationing must be introduced immediately, experts warn government
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Food rationing must be introduced immediately, experts warn government

The Independent  

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Coronavirus is causing panic buying, but what does that mean for Australia's food security?
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus is causing panic buying, but what does that mean for Australia's food security?

ABC  

Empty supermarket shelves have become a common sight in the past few weeks, since coronavirus sparked widespread panic buying. Key points: Coronavirus has led to temporary shortages of some products in supermarkets But retail and agricultural experts say Australia has plenty of food to go around Rationing was introduced during World War II, but is extremely unlikely to be repeated …

Coronavirus pandemic driving strong demand for local fruit and vegetables
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus pandemic driving strong demand for local fruit and vegetables

ABC  

As humanity's most pressing health crisis plays out across the globe, Australian consumers appear to be rushing to boost their immunity with locally grown vegetables. Key points: Demand for locally produced fruit and vegetables is strong amid coronavirus fears Some WA producers say it is the best year they have had in a decade On the flip side, the global …

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