Tag: Food Insecurity

UN looks to address ‘unprecedented catastrophic levels’ of food insecurity (UN News)

To ramp up support, the United Nations on Monday convened a high-level event, calling for international action, before it is too late. Close to half a million people are experiencing famine-like conditions (IPC phase 5, under the official...

What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger (Brittany Kesselman, Project-Syndicate)

The pandemic has shown the importance of community-based initiatives in fighting food insecurity. Unfortunately, when the United Nations Food Systems Summit convenes this month,...

USA – Beyond ‘food deserts’: America needs a new approach to mapping food insecurity (Brookings)

Caroline George and Adie Tomer The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the shortcomings within the country’s social safety net— especially in the case of food security....

(Food Insecurity) Food insecurity: what answers ?

CSIS writes: In this first episode of Reset the Table, Ambassador Ertharin Cousin discusses the differences between today’s global food security crisis and the...

(Food Insecurity/USA) Food Insecurity Crises at Home and Abroad: Why Biden Must Lead on Both (Caitlin Welsh, CSIS)

When it ultimately subsides, one of the lasting images of the pandemic in the United States will be a food bank with customers queued...